Giovanni Bertati

Giovanni Bertati (* July 10, 1735 in Martellago, † 1815 in Venice ) was an Italian librettist.

Bertati 1763 wrote his first libretto, La morte di Dimone ( " Dimon death " ), with music by Antonio Tozzi. Two years later, L' isola della fortuna ( " The Island of Happiness " ), listed based on Giovanni Bertati libretto and Andrea Luchesis music in Vienna. 1770 visited Bertati repeatedly Vienna, where he worked with Baldassare Galuppi. Emperor Leopold II granted him the title of Poeta Cesareo ( "Imperial Poet" ) of the Italian opera of Vienna, previously Lorenzo Da Ponte held, who was a year ago failed the Emperor in disgrace.

During his career as a librettist to Bertati devoted almost exclusively to writing drammi giocosi. His most famous Il matrimonio segreto libretto ( " The Secret Marriage " ) to music by Domenico Cimarosa, premiered on February 7, 1792 in Vienna.

Lorenzo Da Ponte took as his libretto for Mozart's Don Giovanni partly to Giovanni Bertati text.

Libretti

The following list contains the 70 libretti Giovanni Bertati, the annual figures relate to the premieres.

• La morte di Dimone ossia L' innocenza vendicata (music by Antonio Tozzi, 1763)
• Serenata per musica (music by Andrea Luchese, 1764 )
• L' isola della fortuna (music by Andrea Luchese, 1765 )
• Il villano geloso (Music by Baldassarre Galuppi, 1769; Music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, 1770; Music by Giuseppe Sarti under the Title I Finti eredi, 1785 )
• L' anello in cantanto (music by Ferdinando Bertoni, 1771)
• Calandrino ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1771; Music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga and Giacomo Rust under the title L' avaro deluso, 1773; Music of Antonio Sacchini, 1778)
• L' delle donne inimico (Music by Baldassarre Galuppi, 1771; Music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga entitled Zon - Zon principe di Kibin - Kinka, 1773)
• La locanda ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1771; Music by Giovanni Paisiello entitled Il fanatico in berlina, 1791)
• L' isola di Alcina ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1771-72; Music by Giacomo Rust, 1772; Music by Alessandro Bianchi (Composer ), Alessandro Bianchi, 1794)
• I Visionari (Music by Gennaro Astarita, 1772 Music by Giovanni Paisiello entitled Gli astrologi immaginari, 1779)
• La contessa di Bimbimpoli (Music by Gennaro Astarita, 1772)
• La tomba di Merlino ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1772)
• Armida (music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, 1773; Music by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, 1786)
• Mirandolina (music by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, 1773; Music by Luigi Caruso under the title La virtuosa alla moda, 1776, music by Vincenzo Fabrizi under the title L' amore by interest, 1787)
• Il tamburo nocturne (music by Giovanni Paisiello, 1773; Music of Giovanni Battista Lorenzi under the title Il tamburo )
• La villanella incostante (music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, 1773)
• Il marito che non ha Mogli (Music by Gennaro Astarita, 1774)
• Il geloso in cimento (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1774)
• Il principe ipocondriaco (Music by Gennaro Astarita, 1774; Music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, 1776)
• L' avoro (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1775; Music by Gennaro Astarita, 1776; Music by Ferdinando Orlandi, 1801)
• L' amor bizzarro ossia La Gelosa di sé stesso (music by Giacomo Rust, 1775)
• La novità (music by Felice Alessandri, 1775 Music by Giovanni Valentini under the title Il capriccio drammatico, 1787)
• La donna unstable (music by Giovanni Battista Borghi, 1776; Music of Antonio Boroni, 1776; Music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1776; Music of Giovanni Battista Borghi under the title Gli tre Pretendenti, 1777)
• Isabella e Rodrigo ossia La costanza in amore (Music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1776)
• Lo sposo disperato (music by Pasquale Anfossi, also under the title Il Zotico incivilito, 1777; Music by Vicenzo Nusco, 1808)
• Il curioso indiscreto (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1777) - uncertain attribution
• La forza delle donne (music by Pasquale Anfossi, also under the title Il delle donne trionfo, 1778; Music by Bernardo Ottani under the title Le amazzoni, 1784 Music by Peter von Winter, under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso; Music by Giuseppe Nicolini under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso, 1799)
• Il cavalier errante (music by Tommaso Traetta, 1778)
• Le amorose industry (music by Bernardo Ottani, 1778; Music by Pasquale Anfossi under the title Il matrimonio per inganno, 1779)
• La vendemmia ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, also under the title Le vendemmie, 1778)
• Azorre di Kibinga (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1779)
• Le nozze in contrasto (music by Giovanni Valentini, 1779)
• Il più bel dono inutile (music by Antonio Rosetti, 1779)
• I quaqueri (music by Antonio Rosetti, 1779)
• Li rivali ridicoli (music by Michele Mortellari, 1780)
• La statua matematica (music by Giovanni Valentini, 1780; Music by Luigi Caruso under the title L' antiquario burlato ossia La statua matematica, 1786)
• Le most deboli (music by Francesco Salari, 1780)
• L' imbroglio delle tre spose (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1781)
• Il marito geloso (music by Luigi Caruso, 1781)
• L'opera nuova (music by Matteo Rauzzini, 1781)
• Lo Sposalizio by dispetto (music by Gaetano Monti, 1781)
• Gli amanti alla prova (music by Luigi Caruso, 1783; Music by Francesco Piticchio, also titled Gli amanti dispettosi, 1784)
• Le due sorelle incognite (music by Antonio Calegari, 1783)
• La villanella rapita (music by Francesco Bianchi, 1783)
• Il serraglio di Osmano ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1784)
• Le spose ricuperate (music by Luigi Caruso, also titled I campi Elisi ossia Le spose ricuperate, 1785 )
• L' amore costante ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1786; Music by Pierre Dutillieu under the title Nannerina e Pandolfino ossia Gli Sposi in cimento, 1792)
• La contessa di Luna Nova (music by Vincenzo Fabrizi, 1786)
• Le donne fanatiche ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1786)
• Chi sta bene non si muova (music by Ferdinando Robuschi, 1787)
• Don Giovanni Tenorio ( music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1787)
• L' orfanella americana (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1787; Music of Friedrich Christoph Gestewitz, 1791)
• Il curioso accidente (Music by Gennaro Astarita, 1789)
• La fata capricciosa (music by Francesco Gardi, 1789)
• Il pazzo glorioso (music by Marcello Bernardini, 1790)
• Il fanatico in berlina (music by Giovanni Paisiello, 1791)
• L'impresario in Scompiglio (Music by Gennaro Astarita, 1791)
• Il matrimonio segreto (music by Domenico Cimarosa, 1792; Music of Anchille Graffigna, 1883)
• Amor Rende segace (music by Domenico Cimarosa, 1793)
• La principessa di Amalfi (music by Joseph Weigl, also under the title La contessa di Amalfi, 1794)
• La bella Lauretta (music by Francesco Gardi, 1795)
• L' amoroso Intrigo (music by Ferdinando Paer, also under the titles Il male vien dal buco, Saed ossia Il serraglio and Gli intrighi del serraglio, 1795)
• Andromeda (music by Nicola Antonio Zingarelli, 1796)
• La donna innamorata ( music by Giuseppe Nicolini, 1796)
• La donna di genio volubile (music by Marcos António Portugal, 1796)
• L' amor l' astuzia insegna (music by Francesco Gardi, 1797 Music by Francesco Gardi, 1801)
• Il medico di Lucca (music by Sebastiano Nasolini, also under the title Il medico dei bagni, 1797)
• La pace (music by Vincenzo Panza; Music by Simon Mayr and Gaetano Marinelli, 1798)
• Le tre Orfanelle ossia la Scola di musica (music by Marcello Bernardini, 1798)
• Gli Umori Contrari (music by Sebastiano Nasolini, 1798)
• La bella selvaggia (music by Antonio Salieri, 1802)

Source

• Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992 ), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5

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