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Showing posts with label Carlo Goldoni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carlo Goldoni. Show all posts
3 January 2022

Baldassare Galuppi – opera composer

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Musician from Burano had a talent for comic opera Galuppi became a major figure in the evolution of comic opera The prolific Venetian compos...
4 April 2019

Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli - composer

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Neapolitan who snubbed Napoleon wrote 37 operas Niccolò Zingarelli was one of the most successful composers of his time The composer ...
25 February 2019

Carlo Goldoni – playwright

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Greatest Venetian dramatist whose work still entertains audiences today Alessandro Longhi's portrait of Carlo Goldini is on displa...
21 August 2018

Lino Capolicchio - actor

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Acclaimed for role in Vittorio de Sica classic Lino Capolicchio's acting talents shone on the  stage, television and the big scree...
25 June 2018

Marta Abba - actress

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Aspiring star who became Pirandello’s muse Marta Abba was just 24 when she met the playwright Luigi Pirandello Marta Abba, who as a ...
16 January 2018

Niccolò Piccinni – opera composer

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Writer drawn into 18 th century Paris rivalry Niccolò Piccinni was one of Italy's most popular composers in the 18th century ...
27 August 2017

Zanetta Farussi – actress

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Venetian performer who gave birth to a legendary womaniser Giacomo Casanova, whose mother was  the actress Zanetta Farussi Zanet...
13 December 2016

Carlo Gozzi – playwright

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Noble Venetian who fought to preserve commedia dell’arte Carlo Gozzi - a portrait by an unknown artist Count Carlo Gozzi, the poet ...