Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini (14 June 1730 – 6 October 1786) was an Italian

Italy

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 opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Sacchini was born in Florence

Florence

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, but was raised in Naples

Naples

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, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice

Venice

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, then London

London

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 and eventually Paris

Paris

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, where he died. He was one of the leading composers of opera seria

Opera seria

Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...

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Operas

Title	Genre	Acts	Premiere (place)	Premiere (date)
Fra Donato	intermezzo Intermezzo In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work...	2 acts	Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...	1756
Il giocatore	intermezzo		Naples	1757
Olimpia tradita	commedia		Naples	1758
Il copista burlato	commedia		Naples	1759
La vendemmia	intermezzo	1 act	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , revised Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...	1760, 1767
Il testaccio	opera buffa Opera buffa Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc...		Rome	1760
I due fratelli beffati			Naples	1760
Andromaca	opera seria		Naples	30 May 1761
La finta contessa	farsetta		Rome	1761
Li due bari	opera buffa		Naples	1762
L'amore in campo	dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole...	2 acts	Rome	1762
Alessandro Severo	opera seria	3 acts	Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...	Carnival 1763
Alessandro nell'Indie	opera seria		Venice	1763
Olimpiade	opera seria	3 acts	Padua Padua Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...	1763
Semiramide riconosciuta	opera seria	3 acts	Rome	1764
Eumene	opera seria		Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....	1764
Il gran Cidde			Rome	1764
Lucio Vero	opera seria		Naples	4 November 1764
Il finto pazzo per amore	intermezzo	2 acts	Rome	1765
Creso Creso (Sacchini) Creso is an opera seria in 3 acts by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Gioacchino Pizzi. The opera was first performed at Naples on the 4th of November, 1765...	opera seria	3 acts	Naples, revised London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...	1765, 1774
La contadina in corte La contadina in corte La contadina in corte is an opera buffa in two acts by Antonio Sacchini, first performed at the Teatro Valle in Rome during the Carnival in 1765. The libretto was by Niccolò Tassi. It was a popular opera at the time of its first performance: by the 1780s it had been staged over 20 times in such...	opera buffa		Rome, revised London	1765, 1782
L'isola d'amore	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Rome	1766
Le contadine bizzarre			Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...	1766
Artaserse	opera seria	3 acts	Rome	1768
Nicoraste	opera seria	3 acts	Venice	1769
Scipione in Cartagena	opera seria		Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...	8 January 1770
Calliroe Calliroe Calliroe is an opera by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Mattia Verazi. It was first performed in Ludwigsburg on 11 February 1770.The opera follows the usual pattern of opera seria of the time: secco recitative interlaced with da capo arias...	opera seria		Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg urban district with about 87,000 inhabitants...	1770
L'eroe cinese	opera seria		Munich	1770
Adriano in Siria	opera seria		Venice	1770
Ezio	opera seria		Naples	1771
Armida	opera seria	3 acts	Milan	1772
Vologeso	opera seria		Parma Parma Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....	1772
Tamerlano	opera seria		London	1773
Il Cid	opera seria		London	19 January 1773
Perseo	opera seria	3 acts	London	1774
Nitteti	opera seria	3 acts	London	1774
Montezuma	opera seria	3 acts	London	1775
Erifile	opera seria	3 acts	London	1778
L'amore soldato	dramma giocoso	3 acts	London	1778
L'avaro deluso, o Don Calandrino	dramma giocoso	3 acts	London	1778
Enea e Lavinia	opera seria	3 acts	London	1779
Mitridate	opera seria		London	1781
Renaud Renaud (opera) Renaud is an opera by Antonio Sacchini, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris on 23 February 1783. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts...		3 acts	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...	1783 score
Chimène (revision of Il gran Cidde)	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	Fontainebleau	1783
Dardanus Dardanus (Sacchini) Dardanus is an opera by Antonio Sacchini. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in four acts . It was first performed at Versailles on 18 September 1784, and subsequently at the Paris Opera on 30 November of the same year...	tragédie	4 acts	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...	1784 score
Œdipe à Colone	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	Versailles Versailles Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre...	4 January 1786 score
Arvire et Evelina (incomplete, finished by Jean-Baptiste Rey Jean-Baptiste Rey Jean-Baptiste Rey was a French conductor and composer.Rey was born at Lauzerte. He remains the longest-serving conductor of the Paris Opera; his tenure spans from the last years of the monarchy to Napoleon's Empire... )	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	Paris	1788

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