and performance of Baroque music and opera relied heavily on wealthy patrons, who often employed musicians in their private orchestras and opera houses. Among these patrons were the aristocratic Barberini family, who made their fortune in the Florentine cloth business. Moving to Rome, the Barberini became one of the city’s most powerful family dynasties. Maffeo Barberini (1568–1644), elected ...
1600–69, Italian Priest and librettist Giulio Rospigliosi served the opera-loving Barberini pope Urban VIII. Urban’s family gave Rospigliosi a magnificent setting for his libretto for Il Sant’Alessio (1632) by Stefano Landi, which was performed at the opening of the opera house in the Barberini palace in 1632. Three more libretti in the next decade included Rossi’s Il palazzo incantato. ...
for a time at the Neapolitan court before joining the Borghese family in his native city of Rome in 1621. Twenty years later, he entered the service of the Barberini family, who were influential patrons of opera. Rossi’s first opera, Il palazzo incantato (‘The Enchanted Palace’, 1642), received its first performance in the Barberini palace. The production was ...
was appointed organist of S Luigi dei Francesi and in 1641 moved to the Barberinis. His first opera, Il palazzo incantato (‘The Enchanted Palace’), was lavishly produced for the Barberini theatre in 1642. In 1645 the Barberinis moved to France, and in 1647 Rossi’s second opera Orfeo was successfully presented in Paris at the Palais Royal. After a brief ...
Maria dei Monti, and he joined the papal choir in 1629. Landi’s opera Il Sant’Alessio (‘Saint Alexius’, 1632) was performed at the opening of the opera house in the Barberini palace. Both La morte d’Orfeo and Il Sant’Alessio were innovative and seminal works. The forme, the first secular opera to be performed in Rome, began a tradition for ...
and while he remained in Naples, Scarlatti claimed to have written 80 operas for the Teatro, though half that number was more likely. Houses & Companies | The Barberini Family | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera ...
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