January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛːtro metaˈstaːzjo]), was an Italian poet...

productions were soon mounted across Europe. Metastasio himself commented to Saverio Mattei that L’Olimpiade had been "performed and repeated in all the...

L'Olimpiade is a libretto by Pietro Metastasio for an opera composed by Antonio Caldara L'Olimpiade may also refer to: L'Olimpiade (Vivaldi) an opera composed...

Sources Pietro Metastasio, L'Olimpiade. Dramma per musica, Venice, Rossetti, 1734 (digitized by Library of Congress) Neville, Don, "L'Olimpiade", Grove Music...

it in his letters on Metastasio, remarking: "the whole of Italy knows [this] aria by heart, and this is probably why L'Olimpiade is not revived. No director...

seria style, based on the original libretto of the same name by Pietro Metastasio. It premiered on 26 December 1747 at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan...

Siria (Metastasio), Vienna, 1732. L'Olimpiade (Metastasio), Vienna, 1733. La clemenza di Tito (Metastasio), Vienna, 1734 Achille in Sciro (Metastasio), Vienna...

– libretto by Metastasio Alessandro nell'Indie (Stuttgart, 1760) Cajo Fabrizio (Mannheim, 1760) – libretto by Mattia Verazi L'Olimpiade (Stuttgart, 1761)...

around historical, pseudo-historical, or mythological characters. Metastasio's L'Olimpiade is highly exceptional in being named for an event, not a character...

Alvise Giusti 14 November 1733 Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo 41 725 L'Olimpiade Metastasio 17 February 1734 Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo 42 695 L’Adelaide Antonio...

version: 7 October 1762 Hubertusburg; second version: Warsaw L'Olimpiade opera seria 3 acts Metastasio 16 February 1756; second version: 26 December 1764 Dresden;...

Marchi 1732 723 Motezuma Girolamo Alvise Giusti 14 November 1733 725 L'Olimpiade Metastasio 17 February 1734 695 L'Adelaide Antonio Salvi Carnival 1735 703...

L'eroe cinese Solimano Niccolò Jommelli Attilio Regolo, with libretto by Metastasio (composed 1752, first performed) Bajazette La clemenza di Tito Il parataio...

opere serie, for which his librettists included the poet and dramatist Metastasio, were also widely popular. Throughout his career Galuppi held official...

Title Libretto Date of première Place, theater Semiramide Metastasio Summer fair, 1766 Bergamo, Teatro di Citadella Il Bellerofonte Giuseppe Bonecchi 20...

Mysliveček. It was the composer's first setting of this popular libretto by Metastasio first produced in 1733 (it was common in the second half of the eighteenth...

composer at Lisbon from 1752. He staged three operas on librettos of Metastasio at Lisbon with huge success in 1753, 1754, and 1755. Following the 1755...

Siria Pietro Metastasio G. Scarlatti 132 1752 L'olimpiade Pietro Metastasio G. Latilla 133 1753 Alessandro nell'Indie Pietro Metastasio G. Latilla 134...

Mysliveček. It was the composer's second setting of this popular libretto by Metastasio first produced in 1733 (it was common in the second half of the eighteenth...

(Score/Crit. report) Recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra Metastasio L'Olimpiade III,6 24 February 1778 316 300b "Popoli di Tessaglia! ... Io non...

Freeman, "Mysliveček's Setting of the Aria 'Se cerca, se dice' from Metastasio's L'Olimpiade," in Il ciel non soffre inganni: Attorno al Demetrio di Mysliveček...

Didone in Didone abbandonata by Tommaso Traetta (Milan, 1763) Aristea in L’olimpiade by Pietro Guglielmi (Naples, 1763) Issipile in the pasticcio Issipile...

in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. It was first staged on 16 October 1771 for the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand...

Josef Mysliveček, set to a popular libretto (or dramma per musica) by Metastasio that was originally performed in 1730. It was customary to alter the Metastasian...

ladies in Dresden" (especially for his fine voice and beautiful face). Metastasio, Pietro; Antinori, Gaetano; Galli Bibiena, Antonio; Compstoff, Giuseppe;...

He died in Dresden, in September 1758 (according to a letter by Pietro Metastasio) or in 1764 (from other sources). Marshall, Julian (1900). "Monticelli...

Utica on a libretto by Metastasio (1740) Bajazet (1743) Artaserse (1744) Ipermestra (1748) Ciro riconosciuto (1748) L'Olimpiade (Parma, 1755) La buona...

La passione di Gesù Cristo is a libretto by Pietro Metastasio which was repeatedly set as an azione sacra or oratorio by many composers of the late baroque...

Title Genre Other details 1744 The Death of Abel oratorio Words after Metastasio, lost except for Hymn of Eve (printed 1756) 1744 Judith oratorio Words...

acts Antonio Palomba autumn 1763 Naples, Teatro Nuovo L'Olimpiade opera seria 3 acts Metastasio 4 November 1763 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo Le contadine...