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Giuseppe Maria Foppa

born on 12/7/1760 in Venedig, Italy

died in 1845 in Venedig, Italy

Giuseppe Maria Foppa

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Giuseppe Maria Foppa (Venice, 12 July 1760 – Venice, 1 March 1845) was an Italian librettist. He wrote around 150 libretti, mainly for comic operas, as well as Latin oratorio texts and his memoirs.[1]

Librettos

  • Romeo and Juliet, for Nicola Antonio Zingarelli
  • L'inganno felice, La scala di seta, Il signor Bruschino and Sigismondo for Gioachino Rossini
  • Gli artigiani, 1795 for Pasquale Anfossi
  • L'intrigo della lettera 1797, and several oratorios for Simone Mayr
  • Lo spazzacamino principe 1794, and Le donne cambiate 1797 for Marcos António Portugal
  • Teresa e Claudio, 1801 for Giuseppe Farinelli
  • Un buco nella porta, 1804 for Francesco Gardi

References

  1. ^ Richard Osborne Rossini 2007 01997-24407 p.368 "Foppa, Giuseppe (1760–1845), librettist. An archivist and government official, he wrote some 150 opera libretti. A master of the one-act farsa popular in Venice from the early 1790s, he drew his material from French and Neapolitan sources,"
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