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

La corona (The Crown) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of an azione teatrale in one act. The Italian-language...

La Betulia liberata (1734) text by Metastasio Gioas re di Giuda (1735) (Joash, King of Judah) text by Metastasio La Maria lebbrosa (1739) The following...

Ballet of the Shepherds), a ballet with music by Josef Starzer. Pietro Metastasio had originally written the opera's Italian-language libretto for the composer...

St. Petersburg, 1748 La corona d'Allesandro Magno (Giuseppe Bonecchi), St. Petersburg, 1750 Amor prigionero (Pietro Metastasio), Oranienbaum, 1755 (see...

Sigismondo Capece 30 January 1765 Vienna, Burgtheater La corona azione teatrale 1 act Metastasio intended for 4 October 1765 but unperformed, premiere...

dramas from the French theater. In Italy, the one composed by renowned Metastasio deserved a singular applause, and was sung in this city on October 12...

comic play La serva padrona, which was more successful than the main work. In 1734 he composed Adriano in Siria, with libretto by Pietro Metastasio, in whose...

encouraged musical education for women, his pupils including Elisabeth Mara and Corona Schröter. He was Kapellmeister of Abel Seyler's theatrical company, and...

among others, he agreed to sign a contract for his debut at Rome's Teatro Metastasio, as Belcore in L'elisir d'amore. For the next year, he did not sing in...

de la Légion d'Honneur de France, in 1922. Croce di Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Corona d'Italia, before 1924. Officier de l'Ordre National de la Légion...

well as the Commemoration of Handel, 1785 and his Musical Memoirs of Metastasio, 1796 Scholes, P. A.,The Puritans and Early Music in England and New England...