Giuseppe Maria Foppa
Italian librettist (1760-1845)
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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] He composed work for theatres in Milan, Genoa, Pistoia, Padua, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, and Florence.[citation needed]
Librettos
- Romeo and Juliet, for Nicola Antonio Zingarelli
- L'inganno felice, La scala di seta, Il signor Bruschino and Sigismondo (1814) 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
- Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, 1802 for Gaspare Spontini
- Un buco nella porta, 1804 for Francesco Gardi
References
- ^ Richard Osborne Rossini 2007 0199724407 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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