Giacomo Rust or Rusti was an Italian opera

Italian opera

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 composer

Composer

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, probably of German ancestry.

Not a great deal is known about Rust. Between 1763 and 1777, Rust was active in Venice

Venice

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, where his first opera, a 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...

, La contadina in corte, to a libretto

Libretto

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 by Niccolò Tassi, was performed in 1763. During this period, Rust acquired great fame as opera composer, not only in Italy, buy also abroad, which gained him an invitation to be employed in the service of the archbishop of Salzburg

Archbishopric of Salzburg

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. On 12 June 1777, he was named a choir master at the Salzburg court, a post that he abandoned towards the end of the year. Some time later, Rust returned to Venice to continue his operatic activity. In 1783, he settled down in Barcelona, where he assumed the office of the Maestro de capilla.

Works

The following is the list of the operas composed by Rust.

Title	|Genre	|Sub­divisions	|Libretto	|Première date	|Place, theatre
La contadina in corte	dramma giocoso per musica	3 acts	Niccolò Tassi	1763	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... , Teatro San Moisè Teatro San Moisè The Teatro San Moisè was an opera house in Venice, active from 1640 to 1818. It was in a prominent location near the Palazzo Giustinian and the church of San Moisè at the entrance to the Grand Canal....
La finta semplice	dramma giocoso	3 acts	Pasquale Mililotti	spring 1772	Bologna Bologna Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,... , Formagliari
L'idolo cinese	dramma giocoso	3 acts	Giovanni Battista Lorenzi		Venice, Teatro San Samuele Teatro San Samuele Teatro San Samuele was an opera house and theatre located at the Rio del Duca, between Campo San Samuele and Campo Santo Stefano, in Venice. One of several important theatres built in that city by the Grimani family, the theatre opened in 1656 and operated continuously until a fire destroyed the...
Il conte Baccellone	dramma giocoso	3 acts	Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer.He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and... , from La contessina by Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...	autumn 1774	Venice, Teatro San Moisè
I cavalieri lunatici	farsa Farsa Farsa is a genre of opera, associated with Venice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is also sometimes called farsetta....	3 acts		autumn 1774	Venice, San Cassiano
L'amor bizzaro	dramma giocoso	3 acts	Giovanni Bertati Giovanni Bertati Giovanni Bertati is an Italian librettist.In 1763, Bertati wrote his first libretto, La morte di Dimone , set to music by Antonio Tozzi. Two years later, L'isola della fortuna , based on Bertati's libretto and Andrea Luchesi's music, was performed in Vienna...	carnival 1775	Venice, Teatro San Moisè
Li due amanti in inganno (Act 1, Act 3) (Act 2 by Matteo Rauzzini)	dramma giocoso	3 acts		carnival 1775	Venice, San Cassiano
Alessandro nelle Indie	dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...	3 acts	Metastasio Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...	Ascension 1775	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Il baron in terra asciuta	dramma giocoso	8 scenes		26 December 1775	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Il Socrate immaginario	dramma giocoso	15 scenes	Giovanni Battista Lorenzi	carnival 1776	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Calliroe	dramma per musica	3 acts	Mattia Verazi	June 1776	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... , Nuovo
Il Giove di Creta	dramma giocoso	3 acts		autumn 1776	Venice, San Cassiano
Li due protetti	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Pier Antonio Bagliacca	26 December 1776	Venice, Teatro San Moisè
Il Parnaso confusa	festa teatrale Festa teatrale The term festa teatrale refers to a genre of drama, and of opera in particular. The genre cannot be rigidly defined, and in any case feste teatrali tend to be split into two different sets: feste teatrali divided by acts are operas, while works in this genre performed without division, or merely...	1 act	Metastasio	17 May 1778	Salzburg Salzburg -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for... , Hof
Vologeso, re de' Parti	dramma per musica	2 acts	A Zeno	28 December 1778	Venice, Teatro San Benedetto Teatro San Benedetto The Teatro San Benedetto was a theatre in Venice, particularly prominent in the operatic life of the city in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It saw the premieres of over 140 operas, including Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, and was the theatre of choice for the presentation of opera seria until...
Il talismano (Act 2, Act 3) (Act 1 by Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.... )	dramma giocoso	3 acts	Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...	21 August 1779	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 ,...
L'isola capricciosa	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Caterino Mazzolà	carnival 1780	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Gli antiquari in Palmira	commedia per musica	3 acts	Giuseppe Carpani	autumn 1780	Milan, Teatro alla Scala La Scala La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
Demofoonte	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	autumn 1780	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.... , Pergola
Il castellano deluso				carnival 1781	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.... , Ducale
Artaserse	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	autumn 1781	Perugia Perugia Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the River Tiber, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area.... , Civico
Adriano in Siria	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	26 December 1781	Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat... , Teatro Regio
L'incognita fortunata	farsa Farsa Farsa is a genre of opera, associated with Venice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is also sometimes called farsetta....	1 act	G. Ciliberti	summer 1782	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... , Fondo
L'incontri inaspettati				February 1783	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... , Capranica
La caccia d'Enrico IV	dramma giocoso	2 acts	A. Dian	autumn 1783	Venice, Teatro San Moisè
Il marito indolente	dramma giocoso	2 acrts	Caterino Mazzolà	1784	Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... , Hoftheater Burgtheater The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...
Berenice	dramma per musica	3 acts	Jacopo Durandi	carnival 1786	Parma