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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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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Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. Mozart began the work while he was finishing Die Zauberflöte, the...
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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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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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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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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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manager Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735–1787), painter from Parma Pietro Mennea (1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician Pietro Metastasio, pseudonym...
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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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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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(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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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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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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Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment building, former home of Joseph Haydn, Pietro Metastasio, and Ludwig Bösendorfer) Kleines Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment...
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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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abbandonata (Pietro Metastasio) (1751, Genova) La Zenobia (Pietro Metastasio) (Autumn 1751, Milan, Teatro regio ducal) Il Demofoonte (Pietro Metastasio) (Autumn...
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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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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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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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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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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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performance in Vienna. The libretto may also have been derived from one by Metastasio, which Rossi used for Semiramide riconosciuta by Giacomo Meyerbeer. now...
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an opera in three acts composed by Domenico Sarro to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio of the same name which was based on the story of Dido and Aeneas from...
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dramma per musica in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 14 May 1748 at the Burgtheater in Vienna....
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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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"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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and Prague in 1730. L'Olimpiade and Catone in Utica were written by Pietro Metastasio, the major representative of the Arcadian movement and court poet...
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