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Showing posts with label Librettist. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Librettist. Show all posts

21 October 2026

Giuseppe Giacosa – poet and playwright

Writer produced polished libretti for composer Giacomo Puccini A magazine illustration of Giuseppe Giacosa in his studio in Milan One of It...

30 January 2026

Ferdinando Fontana – journalist and playwright

Prolific writer produced the words for Puccini’s early operas Ferdinando Fontana (left), with Puccini in a photograph taken in around 1885 ...

3 January 2018

Pietro Metastasio – poet and librettist

From street entertainer to leading libretto writer Pietro Metastasio became Europe's most celebrated librettist Pietro Meta...

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