Metastasio

American  

[me-tah-stah-zyaw] / ˌmɛ tɑˈstɑ zyɔ /

noun

1. Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, 1698–1782, Italian poet and dramatist.

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Metastasio British  

/ metasˈtaːzjo /

noun

1. Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro), original name Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi. 1698–1782, Italian poet and librettist; Viennese court poet (from 1730). His works include La clemenza di Tito (1732)

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Example Sentences

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

Antonio Vivaldi’s 1737 setting of a libretto by Metastasio.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2015

He also teamed up with the emerging Metastasio, becoming the first to set several of the immortal poet's early librettos, including "Artaserse."

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2012

Yet, as “L’Olimpiade” demonstrates, Metastasio knew what worked on stage.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010

The lyrics of Milton and of Metastasio she sung with accompaniments that never tired, because they were never repeated.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden