Jacopo Ferretti

Jacopo Ferretti ( * July 16, 1784, † March 7, 1852 ) was an Italian librettist.

Life and work

The active in Rome Ferretti wrote more than seventy librettos for operas, and oratorios. His friendship with Francesco Maria Piave led to a personal acquaintance with Giuseppe Verdi. After the premiere of Verdi's I due Foscari, 1844, in Rome he read at a banquet a long, self- penned poem in honor of the composer.

Ferretti wrote libretti for composers such as Gaetano Donizetti, Luigi and Federico Ricci, Gioachino Rossini and many others. The best known is probably libretto for Rossini's Cinderella opera La Cenerentola (1817 '), which he had written to a libretto by Charles -Guillaume Etienne Nicolas Isouards opera Cendrillon (1810 ), which goes back his hand on the fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault.

• Libretto
• Italian
• Born in 1784
• Died in 1852
• Man