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Pietro Metastasio
Metastasio, c. 1770 by Meytens or Batoni
Born
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi 3 January 1698 Rome, Papal States
Died
12 April 1782 (aged 84) Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
Pen name
Pietro Metastasio
Occupation
Writer
poet
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (Italian pronunciation:[ˈpjɛːtrometaˈstaːzjo]), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of PietroMetastasio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛːtro...
manager Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735–1787), painter from Parma Pietro Mennea (1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician PietroMetastasio, pseudonym...
music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist PietroMetastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the...
Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after PietroMetastasio. Mozart began the work while he was finishing Die Zauberflöte, the...
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...
Venice) Achille in Sciro (libretto by PietroMetastasio, opera seria, 1739) Artaserse (libretto by PietroMetastasio, opera seria, 1741, Verona) Statira...
acquired a patent of nobility, hence the "von" in the family surname. PietroMetastasio was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important...
Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major libretto by PietroMetastasio. He is best remembered today as the composer of Achille in Sciro,...
Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment building, former home of Joseph Haydn, PietroMetastasio, and Ludwig Bösendorfer) Kleines Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment...
mia Fille, è vero (Pietro Metastasio; Naples 1727/1729) La Scusa (PietroMetastasio; Vienna 1761) Il Nome (PietroMetastasio; Vienna 1761) L'Armonica or...
amante (serenata, libretto by Luca Serio, basato su Endimiione di PietroMetastasio, 1781, Naples) La felicità dell'Anfriso (componimento drammatico,...
Alessandro nell'Indie (to the libretto of PietroMetastasio, 1750, Prague) Semiramide (to the libretto of PietroMetastasio, 1752, Prague) Il retiro degli dei...
return to truth. Apostolo Zeno and PietroMetastasio had endeavoured to make melodrama and reason compatible. Metastasio gave fresh expression to the affections...
dedicated to Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun. Set to a libretto by Metastasio, the opera opened the Milanese Carnival of 1742. According to one anecdote...
Mozart composed in 1771 La Betulia Liberata (KV 118), to a libretto by PietroMetastasio. Arthur Honegger composed an oratorio, Judith, in 1925 to a libretto...
celebrated. By far the most successful librettist of the era was PietroMetastasio and he maintained his prestige well into the 19th century. He belonged...
main work. In 1734 he composed Adriano in Siria, with libretto by PietroMetastasio, in whose intermissions was performed the comic play Livietta e Tracollo...
several paintings and in the libretto Il trionfo di Clelia (1762) by PietroMetastasio. She was also portrayed by Sylvia Syms in the 1961 Italian movie Le...
a variant of the name Demetrius Demetrio (Metastasio), an opera libretto in three acts by PietroMetastasio Demetrio (1773), set by Josef Mysliveček Demetrio...
Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in three acts by PietroMetastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724...
Persia (opera seria, libretto di PietroMetastasio, 1746, Fano) L'Issipile (opera seria, libretto di PietroMetastasio, 1747 or 1748, Macerata) La Didone...
dramma per musica in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by PietroMetastasio. The opera premiered on 14 May 1748 at the Burgtheater in Vienna....
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