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  Creso

  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. The libretto was a popular one that had been first set by Niccolò Jommelli. Creso was the most widely performed of Sacchini's opera...
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  La Gazzetta

  La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso (The Newspaper, or The Marriage Contest) is an opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763. The opera satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives. It...
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  Una cosa rara

  Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà (A Rare Thing, or Beauty and Honesty) is an opera by the composer Vicente Martín y Soler. It takes the form of a dramma giocoso in two acts. The libretto, by Lorenzo da Ponte, is based on the play La luna de la sierra by Luis Vélez de Guevara. The opera was...
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  Calliroe

  Calliroe is an opera by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Mattia Verazi. It was first performed in Ludwigsburg during the February of 1770. The opera follows the usual pattern of opera seria of the time: secco recitative interlaced with da capo arias. Within this format Sacchini introduced...
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  La buona figliuola

  La Cecchina, ossia La buona figliuola (Cecchina, or The Good-Natured Girl) is an opera buffa in three Acts by Niccolò Piccinni. The libretto, by Carlo Goldoni, is based on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. This was Piccinni's most successful Italian opera. There was a sequel entitled La buona...
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  Dardanus

  Dardanus is an opera in four acts by Antonio Sacchini. It was first performed at Versailles, on the 18th of September, 1784. The libretto was adapted by Nicolas-François Guillard from that of Jean-Philippe Rameau's earlier opera of the same name. Music from Dardanus was used in the film Jefferson...
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  Oedipe à Colone

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  Armida

  Armida is an opera seria by Antonio Sacchini set to a libretto by Jacopo Durandi, originally based on the epic poem by Torquato Tasso. The opera was first performed at the Milanese Carnival of 1772. In Armida, Sacchini incorporated many elements of French opera, including frequent use of chorus,...

• La serva padrona

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• La canterina

  La canterina (The Songstress or The Diva), Hob. 28/2, is a short, two act opera buffa by Joseph Haydn, the first one he wrote for Prince Esterhazy. Based on the intermezzo from the third act of Niccolò Piccinni's opera L'Origille (1760), it lasts about 50 minutes. It was written in 1766, and was...