Girolamo Abos

In 1758 he returned to Italy as a teacher at the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini in Naples, where Giovanni Paisiello was one of his pupils. He wrote fourteen operas for the opera houses in Naples, Rome, and London, of which Tito Manlio (Naples, 1751) was the most successful. After 1758 he composed a good deal of church music, including seven masses and several litanies. He died in Naples. Many of his sacred works, oratorios, and the opera Pelopida have been edited by the Australian musicologist and conductor Richard Divall, and are freely available.

Girolamo Abos studied at Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio in Capuana. Training under Gaetano Greco, Francesco Durante and Leonardo Leo is recorded. Antonio Boroni, Giacomo Tritto and Giacomo Insanguine are recorded as having studied under Girolamo Abos. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera and religious. Employment is recorded with Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini. Positions recorded include chapelmaster.

• Title — Genre — Sub­divisions — Libretto — Première date — Place, theatre • Zingare Le due zingare simili — opera buffa — Palomba Antonio Palomba — 1742 — Naples, Teatro Nuovo • Geloso Il geloso — commedia — Palomba Antonio Palomba — spring 1743 — Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini • Furberie Le furberie di Spilletto — commedia per musica — 3 acts — (Première libretto, in Italian) — Carnival 1744 — Florence, Teatro del Cocomero • Serba La serva padrona — opera buffa — Federico Gennaro Antonio Federico — Carnival 1744 — Naples • Moglie La moglie gelosa — commedia — Palomba Antonio Palomba — 1745 — Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini • Adriano Adriano in Siria — dramma per musica — Metastasio Pietro Metastasio — Carnival 1746 — Florence, Teatro della Pergola • Artaserse Artaserse — dramma per musica — 3 acts — Metastasio Pietro Metastasio (Première libretto, in Italian) — 1746 — Venice, Teatro di San Giovanni Crisostomo) • Pelopida Pelopida — dramma per musica — 3 acts — Roccaforte Gaetano Roccaforte (Première libretto, in Italian) — Carnival 1747 — Rome, Teatro Argentina • Alessandro Alessandro nelle Indie — dramma per musica — 3 acts — Metastasio Pietro Metastasio (Première libretto, in Italian) — July 1747 — Ancona, Teatro La Fenice • Arianna Arianna e Teseo — dramma per musica — 3 acts — Pariati Pietro Pariati (Première libretto, in Italian) — 26 December 1748 — Rome, Teatro delle Dame • Tito Tito Manlio — dramma per musica — Roccaforte Gaetano Roccaforte — 30 May 1751 — Naples, Teatro San Carlo • Erifile Erifile — dramma per musica — 3 acts — Neri Giovanni Battista Neri (Première libretto, in Italian) — Carnival 1752 — Rome, Teatro delle Dame • Lucio Lucio Vero o sia Il Vologeso — opera seria — Zeno Apostolo Zeno — 18 December 1752 — Naples, Teatro San Carlo • Medo Il Medo — dramma per musica — Frugoni Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni — 1753 — Turin, Teatro Regio