Le metamorfosi di Pasquale
Music by Gaspare Spontini · libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa · premiered 1802 · at Teatro San Moisè
Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo is a one-act farsa opera by Gaspare Spontini on a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, which premiered at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice in 1802. The opera was Spontini's last work for Italy before his move to Paris and then Berlin. The opera was considered lost but rediscovered in the collection of the Duke of Ursel in Belgium in 2016.
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About the Composer
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and he composed over twenty works.
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Other Operas by Gaspare Spontini
- Li puntigli delle donne (1796)
- La fuga in maschera (1800)
- Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs (1805)
- La vestale (1807)
- Fernand Cortez (1809)
- Agnes von Hohenstaufen (1829)