Telemaco

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Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe (Telemachus, or Circe's Island) is an operatic dramma per musica in two acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The Italian libretto was written by Marco Coltellini after Carlo Sigismondo Capece. The opera was written for the wedding of the Emperor (to be) Joseph II and Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria. The first performance was at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 30 January 1765.
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Marco Coltellini

Marco Coltellini (13 October 1719 – 1777) was an Italian opera librettist and printer. He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as...

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  • Jan 30, 1765

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (2 July, 1714  – 15 November, 1787) was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning...
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