Rinaldo di Capua
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Rinaldo di Capua (Capua
, ca. 1705 – probably Rome
, ca. 1780) was an Italian
composer. Little is known of him with any certainty, including his name, although he was known to Charles Burney
. He may have been the father of composer Marcello Bernardini
.
Capua
Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain. Ancient Capua was situated where Santa Maria Capua Vetere is now...
, ca. 1705 – probably Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, ca. 1780) was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
composer. Little is known of him with any certainty, including his name, although he was known to Charles Burney
Charles Burney
Charles Burney FRS was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.-Life and career:...
. He may have been the father of composer Marcello Bernardini
Marcello Bernardini
Marcello Bernardini was an Italian composer and librettist. Little is known of him, save that he wrote 37 operas in his career...
.
Operas
- Ciro riconosciuto (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1737, Rome)
- Opera comica senza titolo (1737, Rome)
- La commedia in commedia (dramma giocoso, libretto by Francesco Vanneschi, after C. A. Pelli, 1738, Rome)
- Vologeso, re de' Parti (dramma per musica, libretto by Guido Eustachio Luccarelli, after Lucio Vero of Apostolo ZenoApostolo ZenoApostolo Zeno was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.-Early life:Apostolo Zeno was born of Cretan Greek descent in Venice in 1669...
, 1739, Rome) - Farnace (dramma per musica, libretto by Antonio Maria LucchiniAntonio Maria LucchiniAntonio Maria Lucchini or Luchini was an Italian librettist. His texts were set to music by Antonio Vivaldi, Baldassare Galuppi, Leonardo Vinci, and Rinaldo di Capua, among others.-Libretti:...
, 1739, Venice) - La libertà nociva (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Gualtiero Barlocci, 1740, Rome)
- Catone in Utica (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1740, Lisbon)
- Didone abbandonata (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon)
- Ipermestra (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon)
- Le nozze di Don Trifone (intermezzoIntermezzoIn 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...
, libretto by N. G. Neri, 1743, Rome) - Turno Heredonio Aricino (dramma per musica, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia, 1743, Rome)
- Il bravo burlato (intermezzo, libretto by Antonio Pavoni, 1745, Rome)
- La forza del sangue (intermezzo, 1746, Rome)
- La finta zingarella (intermezzo, 1748, Perugia)
- Il vecchio amante (dramma giocoso, 1748, Turin)
- Il bravo e il bello (intermezzo, 1748, Rome)
- Mario in Numidia (dramma per musica, libretto by Giampietro Tagliazucchi, 1749, Rome)
- Opera comica senza titolo (1750)
- Il ripiego in amore di Flaminia finta cameriera e Turno (farsetta, libretto by Angelo Lungi, 1751, Rome)
- Il galoppino (intermezzo, 1751, Rome)
- Gli impostori (dramma giocoso, 1751, Modena)
- Il cavalier Mignatta' (intermezzo, 1751, Rome)
- La forza della pace (intermezzo, libretto by G. Puccinelli and G. Aureli, 1752, Rome)
- La serva sposa (intermezzo, 1753, Rome)
- L'amante delusa (farsetta giocosa, 1753, libretto by Antonio Pavoni, 1753, Rome)
- La zingara (intermezzo, 1753, Parigi) - reworked in French as La bohemienne by Favart.
- La chiavarina (intermezzo, libretto by G. Peruzzini and A. Luigi, 1754, Rome)
- Attalo (dramma per musica, libretto by Antonio Papi (pseudonimo di Cleofonte Doriano), 1754, Rome)
- La smorfiosa (intermezzo, 1756, Rome)
- Il capitano napoletano (commedia, 1756, Firenze)
- Adriano in Siria (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1756, Rome)
- Le donne ridicole (intermezzo, libretto by Carlo GoldoniCarlo GoldoniCarlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
, 1759, Rome) - Il giocatore ed il cavatesori (intermezzo, 1762, Cagli)
- Il matrimonio in villa o sia L'amante di tutte (farsetta, libretto by A. Galuppi, 1762, Rome)
- Il caffè di campagna (farsetta, libretto by Pietro ChiariPietro ChiariAbbot Pietro Chiari was an Italian playwright, novelist and librettist.-Life:He was a Jesuit until leaving the order in 1747. From 1747 to 1762 he was court poet of Duke Francis III of Modena, in Venice, although not at the public cost...
, 1764, Rome) - Il passeggio in villa (farsetta, 1765, Rome)
- Il contadino schernito(intermezzo, 1768, Rome)
- I finti pazzi per amore (farsetta, libretto by Tommaso Mariani, 1770, Rome)
- La donna vendicata, o sia L'erudito spropositato (farsetta, libretto by A. Pioli, 1771, Rome)
- La Giocondina (opera buffa, 1778, Rome)