Antonio Sacchini
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Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini (14 June 1730 – 6 October 1786) was an Italian
Italy
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 opera
Opera
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 composer
Composer
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Sacchini was born in Florence
Florence
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, but was raised in Naples
Naples
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, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice
Venice
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, then London
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 and eventually Paris
Paris
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, where he died. He was one of the leading composers of opera seria
Opera seria
Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...

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Operas

Title Genre Acts Premiere (place) Premiere (date)
Fra Donato intermezzo
Intermezzo
In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work...

 
2 acts Naples
Naples
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1756
Il giocatore intermezzo Naples 1757
Olimpia tradita commedia Naples 1758
Il copista burlato commedia Naples 1759
La vendemmia intermezzo 1 act Rome
Rome
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, revised Barcelona
Barcelona
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1760, 1767
Il testaccio opera buffa
Opera buffa
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Rome 1760
I due fratelli beffati Naples 1760
Andromaca opera seria Naples 30 May 1761
La finta contessa farsetta Rome 1761
Li due bari opera buffa Naples 1762
L'amore in campo dramma giocoso
Dramma giocoso
Dramma giocoso is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole...

 
2 acts Rome 1762
Alessandro Severo opera seria 3 acts Venice
Venice
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Carnival 1763
Alessandro nell'Indie opera seria Venice 1763
Olimpiade opera seria 3 acts Padua
Padua
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1763
Semiramide riconosciuta opera seria 3 acts Rome 1764
Eumene opera seria Florence
Florence
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1764
Il gran Cidde Rome 1764
Lucio Vero opera seria Naples 4 November 1764
Il finto pazzo per amore intermezzo 2 acts Rome 1765
Creso
Creso (Sacchini)
Creso is an opera seria in 3 acts by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Gioacchino Pizzi. The opera was first performed at Naples on the 4th of November, 1765...

opera seria 3 acts Naples, revised London
London
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1765, 1774
La contadina in corte
La contadina in corte
La contadina in corte is an opera buffa in two acts by Antonio Sacchini, first performed at the Teatro Valle in Rome during the Carnival in 1765. The libretto was by Niccolò Tassi. It was a popular opera at the time of its first performance: by the 1780s it had been staged over 20 times in such...

opera buffa Rome, revised London 1765, 1782
L'isola d'amore dramma giocoso 2 acts Rome 1766
Le contadine bizzarre Milan
Milan
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1766
Artaserse opera seria 3 acts Rome 1768
Nicoraste opera seria 3 acts Venice 1769
Scipione in Cartagena opera seria Munich
Munich
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8 January 1770
Calliroe
Calliroe
Calliroe is an opera by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Mattia Verazi. It was first performed in Ludwigsburg on 11 February 1770.The opera follows the usual pattern of opera seria of the time: secco recitative interlaced with da capo arias...

opera seria Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg
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1770
L'eroe cinese opera seria Munich 1770
Adriano in Siria opera seria Venice 1770
Ezio opera seria Naples 1771
Armida opera seria 3 acts Milan 1772
Vologeso opera seria Parma
Parma
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1772
Tamerlano opera seria London 1773
Il Cid opera seria London 19 January 1773
Perseo opera seria 3 acts London 1774
Nitteti opera seria 3 acts London 1774
Montezuma opera seria 3 acts London 1775
Erifile opera seria 3 acts London 1778
L'amore soldato dramma giocoso 3 acts London 1778
L'avaro deluso, o Don Calandrino dramma giocoso 3 acts London 1778
Enea e Lavinia opera seria 3 acts London 1779
Mitridate opera seria London 1781
Renaud
Renaud (opera)
Renaud is an opera by Antonio Sacchini, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris on 23 February 1783. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts...

3 acts Paris
Paris
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1783 score
Chimène (revision of Il gran Cidde) tragédie lyrique 3 acts Fontainebleau 1783
Dardanus
Dardanus (Sacchini)
Dardanus is an opera by Antonio Sacchini. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in four acts . It was first performed at Versailles on 18 September 1784, and subsequently at the Paris Opera on 30 November of the same year...

tragédie 4 acts Paris
Paris
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1784 score
Œdipe à Colone tragédie lyrique 3 acts Versailles
Versailles
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4 January 1786 score
Arvire et Evelina
(incomplete, finished by Jean-Baptiste Rey
Jean-Baptiste Rey
Jean-Baptiste Rey was a French conductor and composer.Rey was born at Lauzerte. He remains the longest-serving conductor of the Paris Opera; his tenure spans from the last years of the monarchy to Napoleon's Empire...

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tragédie lyrique 3 acts Paris 1788

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