• after whom Metastasio's libretto and all the operas below are named. Ezio (libretto), opera libretto by Metastasio. Notable settings are: Ezio (Handel)...
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    January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛːtro metaˈstaːzjo]), was an Italian poet...
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  • Ezio is an opera eroica or "heroic" opera in 3 acts by Gaetano Latilla. The opera uses an Italian-language libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Metastasio's...
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    Ezio ("Aetius", HWV 29) is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Metastasio. Metastasio's libretto was partly inspired by Jean Racine's...
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  • Ezio is an opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio, first officially set to music by Pietro Auletta and premièred in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, on December...
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    libretto by Antonio Salvi Ezio (Bologna, 1741) – libretto by Metastasio Semiramide riconosciuta (Turin, 1741) – libretto by Metastasio Merope (Venice, 1741)...
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  • Göttingen   28 Poro After Metastasio Italian libretto 2 February 1731 London, King's Theatre 1928, Braunschweig   29 Ezio Metastasio Italian libretto 15 January...
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  • Ezio is an opera seria from the Early Classical Period in three acts composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, staged in 1750 and revised in 1763. Metastasio's...
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    Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development...
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  • (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, opera seria, 1748, Brescia) La donna dottoressa (intermezzo, 1754, Cremona) Ezio (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, opera seria...
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    acts, 1753) Semiramide (3 acts, 1754) Montezuma (3 acts, 1755) Ezio, libretto by Metastasio (1755) I fratelli nemici (3 acts, 1756) La Merope (3 acts, 1756)...
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    the way, the genre only truly came to fruition due to Metastasio and later composers. Metastasio's career began with the serenata Gli orti esperidi ("The...
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    It was the composer's second setting of a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio that was first performed in 1728, one of the most popular of the Metastasian...
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    It was the composer's first setting of a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio that was first performed with music by Pietro Auletta in 1728, one of...
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  • around Europe when Mozart was nine years old. The words are from Metastasio's Ezio, act 2, scene 4, by the character Massimo. The work is scored for...
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    burlato) (to the libretto of F. Casorri, 1763, Cremona) Ezio (to the libretto of Pietro Metastasio, 1763, Florence) L'olandese in Italia (to the libretto...
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    known appearance is in 1728, in the libretto Ezio (the Italian variation of Aetius). This libretto, in which Ezio becomes involved in a plot to kill Attilla...
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  • acts Metastasio 14 May 1748 Vienna, Burgtheater La contesa de' numi festa teatrale 2 acts Metastasio 9 April 1749 Copenhagen, Charlottenborg Ezio (first...
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    the Prague Carnival of 1750 Gluck composed a new opera, Ezio (again set to one of Metastasio's works, with the manuscript located at the Lobkowicz Palace)...
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  • preserved) opera seria 3 acts Antonio Salvi 28 August 1730 Milan Ezio opera seria 3 acts Metastasio Autumn 1730; second version: 1755 Naples; second version:...
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    opere serie, for which his librettists included the poet and dramatist Metastasio, were also widely popular. Throughout his career Galuppi held official...
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  • Catone in Utica opera seria 3 acts Metastasio 29 April 1761 Venice, Teatro San Samuele Ezio opera seria 3 acts Metastasio 1761 Florence, Teatro della Pergola...
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    Czech composer Josef Mysliveček after he appeared in the latter's opera Ezio and oratorio Isacco figura del redentore in Munich early in the year 1777...
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    (Pietro Metastasio) (1749, Naples, Teatro San Carlo) Andromeda (1750, Vienna, Hoftheater) Vologeso (Apostolo Zeno) (1750, Vienna, Hoftheater) Ezio (Pietro...
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    Hasse's next opera Artemisia and in 1755 adapted Metastasio's libretto for Hasse's Ezio. Like Solimano, Ezio was a lavish operatic spectacle which included...
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    In the 18th century, several distinguished composers set to music the Metastasio libretto, Catone in Utica, among them, Leonardo Leo, Leonardo Vinci, J...
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    (libretto by Giovanni Bertati, opera buffa, 1771, Venice) Ezio (libretto di Pietro Metastasio, opera seria, 1772, Venice) La tomba di Merlino (libretto...
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  • Pariati autumn 1727 Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Cristostomo Ezio opera seria 3 acts Metastasio? and Domenico Lalli 20 November 1728 Venice, Teatro San Giovanni...
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    Catone (Handel) (category Libretti by Metastasio)
    Theatre, Haymarket, London, on 4 November 1732. The libretto was written by Metastasio. A first version of his libretto was set to music by Leonardo Vinci whose...
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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, the...
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