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
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
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
Among them is a very interesting head of Metastasio, painted when he was young.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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