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Giovanni Battista Locatelli

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Name
  
Giovanni Locatelli

Role
  
Opera Director

Died
  
March 14, 1785, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Giovanni Battista Locatelli (7 January 1713 – 14 March 1785) was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company.

In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to give open public performances. The repertoire was mostly of Italian opera buffa. During the first three years the troupe presented seven operas by Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785):

  • Il mondo della luna (Russian: Lunnii mir – The World of the Moon, previously premiered in 1750, Venice)
  • Il filosofo di campagna (Derevenskii filosof – The Village Philosopher, 1754, Venice)
  • L'Arcadia in Brenta (arkadiya v Brente – Arcadia in Brenta, 1749, Venice)
  • I bagni d'Abano (Kupan'e v abano – The Spa of Abano, written together with Bertoni, 1753, Venice)
  • Il conte Caramella (Graf Karamella – Count Caramella, 1749, Verona?)
  • La calamita de' cuori (Serdechnoe bedstvie – A Calamity of Hearts, 1752, Venice)
  • Il mondo alla roversa, ossia Le donne che commandono (Mir naiznanku, ili ZHenschini komanduyut – The World Upside Down, or Women in Command, 1750, Venice)

    • This Russian Opera article is part of the Opera Project

    References

    Giovanni Battista Locatelli Wikipedia
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