Music database
Musician
Giuseppe Maria Foppa
born on 12/7/1760 in Venedig, Italy
died in 1845 in Venedig, Italy
Giuseppe Maria Foppa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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
- ^ 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,"
This page was last modified 29.09.2018 22:01:51
This article uses material from the article Giuseppe Maria Foppa from the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.