Metastasio
Americannoun
noun
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The young Salieri got to know Pietro Metastasio, the reigning librettist of eighteenth-century Italian opera, and Christoph Willibald Gluck, whose lucid, elegant style set the tone for the Viennese Classical period.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
It is a meditation on Italian baroque opera, a homage to La Scala itself, with words from the 18th-century librettist Metastasio and texts by the playwright Goldoni, his contemporary.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2013
Yet, as “L’Olimpiade” demonstrates, Metastasio knew what worked on stage.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2010
With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was about this time that he composed his first sonnet, which was made up of whole or mutilated verses of Metastasio and Ariosto, the only two Italian poets of whom he knew any thing.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
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