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Francesco Sbarra

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Baptised
  
19 February 1611

Libretti
  
Il pomo d'oro

Occupation
  
Poet, librettist

Francesco Sbarra httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Died
  
20 March 1668, Vienna, Austria

Francesco Sbarra (19 February 1611 – 20 March 1668) was an Italian poet and librettist. Born in Lucca, he spent most of his career in Austria where he wrote the librettos for entertainments and operas at the courts of Archduke Ferdinand Charles in Innsbruck and Emperor Leopold I in Vienna.

Librettos

  • Alessandro vincitor di se stesso (opera in a prologue and 3 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Venice 1651
  • Venere cacciatrice, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck 1659
  • La magnanimità d'Alessandro, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck, 1662
  • Nettuno e Flora festeggianti (azione teatrale), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1666
  • Le Lachrime di San Pietro (azione sacra), set by Giovanni Felice Sances. Vienna. 1666
  • Le disgrazie d'Amore, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
  • La Germania esultante , set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
  • Il pomo d'oro (opera in a prologue and 5 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1668

    • References

    Francesco Sbarra Wikipedia
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