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
"There is, to my thinking, even a more graceful instance in Metastasio," said Polly:— "'L' onda che mormora, Fra sponda e sponda, L' aura che tremola, Fra fronda e fronda."
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
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