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    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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  • manager Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735–1787), painter from Parma Pietro Mennea (1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician Pietro Metastasio, pseudonym...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • "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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    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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    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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    Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment building, former home of Joseph Haydn, Pietro Metastasio, and Ludwig Bösendorfer) Kleines Michaelerhaus (18th-century apartment...
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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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    amante (serenata, libretto by Luca Serio, basato su Endimiione di Pietro Metastasio, 1781, Naples) La felicità dell'Anfriso (componimento drammatico,...
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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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    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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    Didone abbandonata (category Libretti by Metastasio)
    Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724...
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    Demetrio is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was first performed to music composed by Antonio Caldara on 4 November 1731 during...
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  • a variant of the name Demetrius Demetrio (Metastasio), an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio Demetrio (1773), set by Josef Mysliveček Demetrio...
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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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  • 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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    arose in reaction to the so-called first reform of Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Metastasio. It was, in part, intended as a genre that the common man could relate...
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  • court poet Pietro Metastasio, with music by Davide Perez, is performed at Teatro San Samuele in Venice. In the same year, in Vienna, Metastasio writes the...
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