Antonio Sacchini

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Antonio Sacchini.
Antonio Sacchini.

Antonio Sacchini (14 June 1730 – 6 October 1786), was an Italian opera composer.

Sacchini was born in Florence, but was raised and received his musical education in Naples, where he wrote his first operas, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris, where he died. He was one of the leading composers of opera seria.

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[edit] Operas

  • Fra Donato (Naples, 1756)
  • Il giocatore (Naples, 1757)
  • Olimpia tradita (Naples, 1758)
  • Il copista burlato (Naples, 1759)
  • Il testaccio (Rome, 1760)
  • I due fratelli beffati (Naples, 1760)
  • Andromeca (Naples, 1761)
  • La finta contessa (Rome, 1761)
  • Li due bari (Naples, 1762)
  • L'amore in campo (Rome, 1762)
  • Alessandro Severo (Venice, 1763)
  • Alessandro nell'Indie (Venice, 1763)
  • Olimpiade (Padua, 1763)
  • Semiramide riconosciuta (Rome, 1764)
  • Eumene (Florence, 1764)
  • Il gran Cidde (Rome, 1764)
  • Lucio Vero (Naples, 1764)
  • Il finto pazzo per amore (Rome, 1765)
  • Creso (Naples, 1765 revised London, 1774)
  • La contadina in corte (Rome, 1765, London, 1782)
  • L'isola d'amore (Rome, 1766), Framery's parody score
  • Le contadine bizzarre (Milan, 1766)
  • Artaserse (Rome, 1768)
  • Nicoraste (Venice, 1769)
  • Scipione in Cartagena (Munich, 1770)
  • Calliroe (Ludwigsburg, 1770)
  • L'eroe cinese (Munich, 1770)
  • Adriano in Siria (Venice, 1770)
  • Ezio (Naples, 1771)
  • Armida (Milan, 1772)
  • Vologeso (Parma, 1772)
  • Tamerlano (London, 1773)
  • Il Cid (London, 1773)
  • Perseo (London, 1774)
  • Nitteti (London, 1774)
  • Montezuma (London, 1775)
  • Didone abbandonata (London, 1775)
  • Erifile (London, 1778)
  • L'amore soldato (London, 1778)
  • L'avaro deluso, o Don Calandrino (London, 1778)
  • Enea e Lavinia (London, 1779)
  • Mitridate (London, 1781)
  • Renaud (Paris, 1783) revisione di Armida, score
  • Chimène (Fontainebleau, 1783) revised version of Il gran Cidde
  • Dardanus (Paris, 1784), score
  • Oedipe à Colone (Versailles, 1786), score
  • Arvire et Evelina (Paris, 1788) incomplete, finished by Jean-Baptiste Rey

[edit] Recordings

Oedipe à Colone, first world recording, 2005. Manon Feubel, soprano, Fabrice Mantegna, Tenor, Daniel Galvez-Valejo, tenor, Sviatoslav Smirnof, Bass. La Camerata de Bourgogne, choir and orchestra, Jean-Paul Penin, conductor.

[edit] Sources

Sacchini, Antonio by David DiChiera, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7//

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