Alessandro Pèpoli
Alessandro Ercole Pèpoli (born October 1, 1757 in Venice , † December 12, 1796 in Florence ), Italian poet , librettist , impresario and publisher .
Life
He began his career as a political writer with his Saggio di libertà sopra vari punti (1783), a treatise on a moderately democratic government. As a "rival" of Vittorio Alfieri ( Virginia , 1783), he tried his hand at Ladislao (1796), a new theater genre, the "fisedia" or the "song to nature."
Pèpoli also wrote comedies, stirring pieces ("drammi lacrimosi"), Opere buffe and Melodrammi ( Meleager , 1785) as well as numerous tragedies, including the original (1788) for Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena and the libretto for Giovanni Paisiello's I giuochi d'Agrigento (first performance on May 16, 1792 at the Teatro La Fenice ).
As an actor and impresario, Pèpoli had a disused theater in his Palazzo Cavalli in San Vidal , which was restored between 1793 and 1795 and in which he performed various dramas with music.
Web links
- Alessandro Pèpoli on www.ariannaeditrice.it (Italian)
- Enciclopedia Italiana (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 7: Register. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-492-03972-3 , p. 540.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pèpoli, Alessandro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pèpoli, Alessandro Ercole (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1796 |
| Place of death | Florence |