Antonio Cesti (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo ˈtʃesti]; baptised Pietro Cesti, 5 August 1623; died 14 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian...

Cesti can refer to: Antonio Cesti (1623-1669), Italian Baroque composer Italian plural of Cestus, a Classical weapon Latin plural of cestus (Cest), a...

Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni Filippo...

Il pomo d'oro, in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti, with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611–1668). Kallistēi is the word...

1613, with later important composers including Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti, Antonio Sartorio, and Giovanni Legrenzi. Monteverdi wrote three works for...

International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti. Named for Antonio Cesti, a 17th-century Italian singer and composer who served at...

a French drama by Jean Magnon Il Tito (1666), an Italian opera by Antonio Cesti (mus.) and Nicola Beregani (libr.) Bérénice (1670), a French drama by...

and the Roman cantata during the 1630s and '40s (the era of composers Antonio Cesti, Giacomo Carissimi and Luigi Rossi) as a reaction against the earlier...

1 that he was influenced by the melodic style of Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti, and Luigi Rossi; however, he shows considerable originality in instrumentation...

iii (1969), 906–33; v (1971), 1304–52 "Nel CCC anno della morte di Antonio Cesti: ventidue lettere ritrovate nell' Archivio di Stato di Venezia", Nuova...

well-known of which were Antonio Cesti's L'Argia and La Dori, as well as several oratorios and the texts for cantatas by both Cesti and Alessandro Stradella...

about it. To celebrate her official conversion, L'Argia, an opera by Antonio Cesti, was performed. Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, already in financial...

Alexander the Great And King Poros – Opera From Antonio Cesti Burnacini – 1750...

– Sonata a 4, La Carolietta Francesco Cavalli – Coriolano Antonio Cesti – Genserico Antonio Draghi – Achille in Sciro Jean-Baptiste Lully – Monsieur de...

orchestra founded in 2012 and named after the opera Il pomo d'oro by Antonio Cesti. The ensemble specialises in Historically informed performance of music...

Gagliano, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Jacopo Peri & Ottavio Rinuccini, and Antonio Cesti, among others. André Meyer maintained a vacation home in Crans-sur-Sierre...

collaborated in staging some operas, two by Francesco Cavalli and two by Antonio Cesti, at the Tordinona Theater, composing prologues, intermedios and new...

set by Antonio Cesti, Venice 1651 Venere cacciatrice, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck 1659 La magnanimità d'Alessandro, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck...

Apple) is an opera in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed...

(b. 1557) 1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552) 1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (b. 1623) 1703 – Thomas Kingo, Danish...

the most important Italian composer of opera in the mid-17th century Antonio Cesti (1623–1669), composer who, with Francesco Cavalli, was one of the leading...

collection of his complete works, published in Vienna Pietro Cavalli – Jason Antonio Cesti – Orontea, premiered at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during...

premiere of the opera Il pomo d'oro (The Golden Apple). Composed by Antonio Cesti, the opera was called the "staging of the century" by contemporaries...

opera composer. Later important practitioners of this style include Antonio Cesti, Giovanni Legrenzi, and Alessandro Stradella, who additionally originated...

much of its repertoire by his court composer, the resident Italian Antonio Cesti. From 1654 to 1665, the company here produced several successful operas...

Sant' Alessio (1981) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Orontea (1982) Georg Friedrich Handel: Ariodante (1982) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Il Tito (1983) Georg Friedrich...

century in Venice — only a few operas by others (e.g., Monteverdi and Antonio Cesti) survive. The development is particularly interesting to scholars because...

philologist and historian (d. 1609) 1607 – Antonio Barberini, Italian cardinal (d. 1671) 1623 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1669) 1626...

recorded a large amount of less-known Baroque music by such composers as Antonio Cesti, d'India, Ferrari, Marenzio, Lambert, Guédron, William Lawes and others...

as well as by the Venetian school, in particular Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Cesti and Giovanni Legrenzi. George J. Buelow, further, attests that the influence...