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
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
He knew English literature and loved English literature as well as if he had never scanned a Latin line or conjugated a Greek verb or read a page of Molière, or Calderon, or Metastasio.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin
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