Nicolò Beregan

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Count Nicolò Beregan (1627-1713) was an Italian nobleman, lawyer and amateur opera librettist.^[1] His Giustino was first set to music in 1683, and later reused by both Vivaldi (Giustino, 1724) and Handel (Giustino, 1737).^[2]

Librettos

Annibale in Capita, set by Pietro Andrea Ziani, 1661^[3]

References

↑ Ellen Rosand Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre 2007 Page 188 "In other seasons Faustini managed to convince a variety of noblemen and a canon to turn author: Counts Zaguri and Nicolo Beregan in 1660 and 1661, respectively, and Dott. Cristoforo Ivanovich in 1663."
↑ Music As Social and Cultural Practice Page 217 Melania Bucciarelli, Berta Joncus - 2007 "Nicolò Beregan's Giustino, first staged in 1683 and set by Vivaldi for Rome in 1724, has two successful couples, Giustino–Leocasta and Arianna–Anastasio, "
↑ Rivista politica e letteraria Volume 8 1899 Page 161 "All' Annibale in Capita, melodramma con poesia del conte Nicolò Beregan, patrizio veneto, e musica di D. Pietro Andrea Ziani, dato nel febbraio del 1661 nel teatro dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo, vi fu una tale ressa che una simile non si era mai "

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Name	Beregan, Nicolo
Alternative names
Short description	Italian noble and singer
Date of birth	1627
Place of birth
Date of death	1713
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