• The Teatro San Bartolomeo was the predecessor of what is now the main opera house of Naples, the Teatro di San Carlo. Built in 1620, the Bartolomeo was...
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    and larger theatre to replace the old, dilapidated, and too-small Teatro San Bartolomeo of 1621, which had served the city well, especially after Scarlatti...
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  • His opera Didone abbandonata, premiered on 1 February 1724 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major libretto by Pietro Metastasio...
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    padrona and the opera seria it punctuates were premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo on 6 September 1733, the first performances there after an earthquake...
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    Virgil's Aeneid. The opera premiered on 1 February 1724 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. Didone abbandonata was Metastasio's first original libretto...
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    25 October 1734, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples L'Olimpiade, January 1735, Teatro Tordinona, Rome Il Flaminio, autumn 1735, Teatro Nuovo, Naples Sinfonia...
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    by Silvio Stampiglia. It was first performed in Naples, at the Teatro San Bartolomeo on 1 October 1724. The castrato Farinelli, then only 19 years old...
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    and larger theatre to replace the old, dilapidated, and too-small Teatro San Bartolomeo of 1621. Which had served the city well, especially after Scarlatti...
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    Gasparini's opera, La fede tradita e vendicata. It was premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples on 5 September 1733 and received further performances...
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  • Coccorante. His father, Giuseppe Capelli, was a scenic designer at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. His brother, Giuseppe Cappelli (or Capelli) was a painter...
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    Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in the world premiere of Niccolò Jommelli's Semiramide. In October 1734 Turcotti returned to the Teatro San Bartolomeo...
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    with a setting to music by Francesco Feo on 13 May 1723 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples. The action is set in Rusconia near Cirta in Numidia, around...
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    1730. The libretto was the fourth of five that Metastasio wrote for the Teatro delle Dame in Rome between 1727 and 1730. The work was dedicated to the...
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  • Domenico Lalli. It was first performed on 4 February 1719 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. It was the composer's 111th opera and his last for Naples...
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    (Venice, Teatro San Angelo, Carnival 1723) Zenobia in Palmira (Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo, 1725) Astianatte (1725) La somiglianza (Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini...
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    same name. It was the third of his four opere serie, premiered at Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples on 25 October 1734. It has a historical subject. Adriano...
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    about a block away from the Teatro Donizetti. The church was built in 1613-1642, adjacent to a monastery of San Bartolomeo, which had belonged to the religious...
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    Scarlatti with a libretto by Adriano Morselli, first performed at the Teatro San Bartolomeo. Pyrrhus and Demetrius was the second most successful opera in early...
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  • epic poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto and premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in 1734 with a cast led by Italian prima donna Maria Giustina Turcotti...
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  • (1714) at the court theater attributed to Scarlatti. In 1714 for the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, he produced scenography for Scipione nella Spagna also...
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    Carasale had found success when he was granted direction of the Teatro San Bartolomeo by King Charles III. The church was in the custody of the Mercedarian...
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  • court. In 1728, his only opera Clitarco was premiered at Naples' Teatro San Bartolomeo; the score has been lost. His other principal works include three...
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  • Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo Il Bassiano overo Il maggior impossibile melodramma 3 acts Matteo Noris spring 1694 Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo La santa...
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    a violinist in the royal court orchestra in Naples, and at the "Teatro San Bartolomeo", possibly by Corelli. Mascitti found a temporary position in the...
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    Pisistrato, music by Leonardo Leo, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples, 1714 Tigrane, music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples, 1715. L'amor di figlio...
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    comic intermezzi, from the leading Neapolitan theatre of the time, Teatro San Bartolomeo. Virtually nothing is known of the circumstances of the composition...
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    premiered along with Adriano in Siria on 25 October 1734 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. Pergolesi Livietta e Tracollo & La Serva Padrona – Nancy...
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  • Tigrane opera seria 3 acts Francesco Silvani 4 November 1729 Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo L'Erminia 2 acts Bernardo Saddumene Winter 1729 Naples Artaserse...
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    and larger theatre to replace the old, dilapidated, and too-small Teatro San Bartolomeo of 1621, which had served the city well, especially after Scarlatti...
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    built. 1600 – Royal Palace of Naples construction begins. 1620 – Teatro San Bartolomeo [it] (theatre) built. 1631 – Big eruption of Vesuvius, many little...
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