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1665–1733, Italian Pariati was born in Reggio Emilia, and was secretary to the Duke of Modena. He spent time in Madrid, wrote works for Barcelona and spent three years in an Italian prison. He lived in Venice for 15 years, until he was appointed a court poet at Vienna in 1714. While in Venice he worked with ...

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as imperial poet to the Viennese court of Emperor Charles VI, where he was also appointed imperial historiographer. Zeno wrote 35 opera libretti, including many in collaboration with Pariati, and he was especially proud of his 17 oratorio texts produced for Vienna. Zeno is credited with introducing historical subjects into opera, and he sought to represent the ...

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and the title pages of the printed wordbooks state that he served the Duke of Mantua between 1699 and 1705. Silvani identified with the ‘reform’ librettists such as Zeno and Pariati, and his texts feature clearly motivated plots, elevated language and extensive recitatives. He occasionally based his libretti on literary sources such as Tasso, Seneca and Corneille. Silvani ...

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composer of church music, but his visit to Rome in 1700 attracted him to composing operas and oratorios. Most of Fux’s 18 operas are settings of libretti by Pietro Pariati (1665–1733), although he also set some texts by Stampiglia, Zeno and Metastasio. His greatest triumph was Costanza e Fortezza (1723), performed in Prague to celebrate his patron Charles VI’s ...

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1686–1768, Italian Porpora was born and trained in Naples, where he also taught and worked for much of his career. His first opera was Agrippina (1708), and a few years later he composed Arianna e Teseo (1714) using a new libretto by Pariati. Between 1715 and 1721 Porpora worked at the Conservatorio di St Onofrio, where he became ...

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He remained active until his death, which occurred in Naples during the rehearsals of Pergolesi’s first opera La Salustia (1732). Introduction | Late Baroque | Opera Personalities | Pietro Pariati | Late Baroque | Opera Houses & Companies | Baroque Opera in Naples | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera ...

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During the early eighteenth century a few composers enjoyed regular close collaboration with a favourite librettist, such as Fux with Pariati, or both Vinci and Porpora with the young Metastasio. However, such examples were rare, and instead it was common for a popular libretto created for one major Italian opera centre to be adapted for the needs ...