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Showing posts with label Pietro Metastasio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pietro Metastasio. 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...
17 February 2019

Giovanni Pacini – opera composer

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Works of overshadowed musician have enjoyed recent revival Giovanni Pacini found himself overshadowed first by Bellini and Donizetti, ...
24 December 2018

Domenico Sarro – composer

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Court choirmaster wrote several important operas Domenico Sarro, as depicted by Nicolò Maria Rossi Opera composer Domenico Sarro was...
11 May 2018

Ignazio Fiorillo – composer

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Talented Neapolitan influenced music in Germany Fiorillo studied music at the Naples Conservatory in his home town Ignazio Fiorillo,...
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 ...
20 August 2017

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel – poet and revolutionary

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Noblewoman who sacrificed her life for the principle of liberty Eleonora Fonseca Partinel was inspired by the French Revolution to j...
1 June 2017

Francesco Scipione – playwright

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Erudite marquis revitalised Italian drama An 18th century portrait of Scipione by an unknown artist Dramatist Francesco Scipione...
3 March 2017

Nicola Porpora – composer and teacher

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Tutor of celebrated opera singers died in poverty Nicola Porpora - a painting by an unknown artist Nicola Porpora, who composed more ...