Didone abbandonata
Music by Baldassare Galuppi · libretto by Pietro Metastasio · premiered 1740 · at Teatro Molza
Didone abbandonata is a 1740 setting by Baldassare Galuppi of the libretto of the same name by Metastasio.
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About the Composer
Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 1706 – 3 January 1785) was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. P. E. Bach, whose works are emblematic of the prevailing galant music that developed in Europe throughout the 18th century. He achieved international success, spending periods of his career in Vienna, London and Saint Petersburg, but his main base remained Venice, where he held a succession of leading appointments. In his early career Galuppi made a modest success in opera seria, but from the 1740s, together with the playwright and librettist Carlo…
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Other Operas by Baldassare Galuppi
- Gustavo primo, re di Svezia (1740)
- Il mondo della luna (1750)
- Il filosofo di campagna (1754)