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    Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛːtro...
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    monument, made by Lucardi, was erected in memory of the Poet Laureate Metastasio in 1855. In the central relief, Pope Pius VI is depicted blessing the...
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    Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. Mozart completed the work in the midst of composing Die Zauberflöte...
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    music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the...
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    The Monument to Pietro Metastasio is a memorial statue dedicated to the Roman poet and dramatist Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782); it is located along the...
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    as an accompanying musician for singing lessons and dances. Poet Pietro Metastasio and piano manufacturer Ludwig Bösendorfer lived and died in the same...
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  • drammatico, libretto di Pietro Metastasio, 1757, Augsburg) L'isola disabitata (azione teatrale, libretto di Pietro Metastasio, 1758, Augusta) Le nozze...
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  • manager Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735–1787), painter from Parma Pietro Mennea (1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician Pietro Metastasio, pseudonym...
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  • Venice) Achille in Sciro (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, opera seria, 1739) Artaserse (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, opera seria, 1741, Verona) Statira...
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  • acquired a patent of nobility, hence the "von" in the family surname. Pietro Metastasio was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important...
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    someone other than the composer, often a well-known poet. Pietro Trapassi, known as Metastasio (1698–1782) was one of the most highly regarded librettists...
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    celebrated. By far the most successful librettist of the era was Pietro Metastasio and he maintained his prestige well into the 19th century. He belonged...
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    composed by Antonio Vivaldi. The opera uses an Italian libretto by Pietro Metastasio that was originally written for Antonio Caldara's 1733 opera of the...
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    Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment building, former home of Joseph Haydn, Pietro Metastasio, and Ludwig Bösendorfer) Kleines Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment...
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    mia Fille, è vero (Pietro Metastasio; Naples 1727/1729) La Scusa (Pietro Metastasio; Vienna 1761) Il Nome (Pietro Metastasio; Vienna 1761) L'Armonica or...
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    with a few modifications, from the libretto of the same name by Pietro Metastasio. The opera first appeared during the Carnival season of 1735 at the...
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  • Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major libretto by Pietro Metastasio. He is best remembered today as the composer of Achille in Sciro,...
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  • "La partenza" is a 1749 canzonetta by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782). It is among his most famous canzonettas and after being set by the poet himself was...
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    amante (serenata, libretto by Luca Serio, basato su Endimiione di Pietro Metastasio, 1781, Naples) La felicità dell'Anfriso (componimento drammatico,...
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    libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Before its destruction, the opera also premiered two operas by Antonio Mazzoni with libretti also by Pietro Metastasio, La clemenza...
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    main work. In 1734 he composed Adriano in Siria, with libretto by Pietro Metastasio, in whose intermissions was performed the comic play Livietta e Tracollo...
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    (1766) La clemenza di Tito (1734), an Italian opera by librettist Pietro Metastasio, set to music by over 40 composers, including Antonio Caldara (1734)...
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  • Persia (opera seria, libretto di Pietro Metastasio, 1746, Fano) L'Issipile (opera seria, libretto di Pietro Metastasio, 1747 or 1748, Macerata) La Didone...
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    return to truth. Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Metastasio had endeavoured to make melodrama and reason compatible. Metastasio gave fresh expression to the affections...
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    Alessandro nell'Indie (to the libretto of Pietro Metastasio, 1750, Prague) Semiramide (to the libretto of Pietro Metastasio, 1752, Prague) Il retiro degli dei...
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    Mozart composed in 1771 La Betulia Liberata (KV 118), to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Arthur Honegger composed an oratorio, Judith, in 1925 to a libretto...
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    Didone abbandonata (category Libretti by Metastasio)
    Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724...
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  • three acts by Niccolò Jommelli of the libretto Didone abbandonata by Pietro Metastasio. It was composed just after Jommelli left Venice in 1746 and revised...
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    motets and sonatas. Several of his compositions have libretti by Pietro Metastasio, the court poet at Vienna from 1729. Operas Sofonisba (F. Silvani)...
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    several paintings and in the libretto Il trionfo di Clelia (1762) by Pietro Metastasio. She was also portrayed by Sylvia Syms in the 1961 Italian movie Le...
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