Francesco Sbarra
Francesco Sbarra (18 February 1611 – 20 March 1668) was an Italian poet and librettist. Francesco Sbarra was born in Lucca, he spent most of his career in Austria where he wrote the librettos for entertainments and operas at the courts of Archduke Ferdinand Charles in Innsbruck and Emperor Leopold I in Vienna. Sbarra was member of the Accademia degli Oscuri and the Accademia degli Accesi of Lucca.
Francesco Sbarra
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- Name
- Francesco Sbarra
- Birthplace
- Lucca, Republic of Lucca
- Died
- 20 March 1668
- Place of death
- Vienna, Archduchy of Austria
- Occupation
- Poet, librettist
- Born
- 1611 · Lucca.
- Languages
- Italian
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Francesco Sbarra (18 February 1611 – 20 March 1668) was an Italian poet and librettist. Francesco Sbarra was born in Lucca, he spent most of his career in Austria where he wrote the librettos for entertainments and operas at the courts of Archduke Ferdinand Charles in Innsbruck and Emperor Leopold I in Vienna. Sbarra was member of the Accademia degli Oscuri and the Accademia degli Accesi of Lucca.
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He corresponded with Michelangelo Torcigliani. His most famous libretto, Il pomo d'oro, was set to music by Antonio Cesti and performed at the imperial court in Vienna in 1668.
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• Name — Francesco Sbarra • Parents — Filippo Sbarra and Ortensia Sbarra (née Ciampanti) • Baptised — 1611 02 18 • Birthplace — Lucca, Republic of Lucca • Died — 20 March 1668 • Place of death — Vienna, Archduchy of Austria • Occupation — Poet, librettist • Children — 3
Librettos
Librettos
• Alessandro vincitor di se stesso (opera in a prologue and 3 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Venice 1651 • Venere cacciatrice, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck 1659 • La magnanimità d'Alessandro, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck, 1662 • Nettuno e Flora festeggianti (azione teatrale), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1666 • Le Lachrime di San Pietro (azione sacra), set by Giovanni Felice Sances. Vienna. 1666 • Le disgrazie d'Amore, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667 • La Germania esultante, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667 • Il pomo d'oro (opera in a prologue and 5 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1668
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- 1.Usula, Nicola, «Sbarra, Francesco», en Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 91 (2018), Treccani.
- 2.Ambas reimpresas en Roma en 1664: Saverio Franchi, Dramaturgia romana. Secolo XVII, vol.2, Roma, 1988, pp. 377-378
- 3.Sbarra, La contesa dell'aria e dell'acqua: festa à cavallo rappresentata nell'augustissime nozze delle sacre, cesaree, reali M. M. dell' imperatore Leopoldo e dell' infanta Margherita dell’Espagne, 1667.
- 4.Polleross, Friedrich, «Entre majestas y modestas: sobre la representación del emperador Leopoldo», en Cortes del Barroco. De Bernini y Velázquez a Luca Giordano, p. 154.
- 5.Sommer-Mathis, pp. 49-50.
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