Giovanni Bertati

Giovanni Bertati (born July 10, 1735 in Martellago , † 1815 in Venice ) was an Italian librettist .

Bertati wrote his first libretto in 1763, La morte di Dimone ("Dimon's Death"), to music by Antonio Tozzi . Two years later, L'isola della fortuna ("The Island of Happiness"), based on Bertati's libretto and Andrea Lucchesi's music, was performed in Vienna. In 1770 Bertati visited Vienna several times, where he worked with Baldassarre Galuppi . Emperor Leopold II awarded him the title of Poeta dei cesari teatro ("Poet of the Imperial Theater"), previously held by Lorenzo da Ponte , who had fallen out of favor with the Emperor a year earlier.

During his career as a librettist, Bertati devoted himself almost exclusively to writing drammi giocosi . His most famous libretto is Il matrimonio segreto ("The Secret Marriage") to the music of Domenico Cimarosa , first performed on February 7, 1792 in Vienna.

Lorenzo Da Ponte based his libretto on Mozart's Don Giovanni in part on Bertati's text.

Libretti

The following list contains Bertati's 70 librettos, the dates refer to the premieres.

• La morte di Dimone ossia L'innocenza vendicata (music by Antonio Tozzi , 1763)
• Serenata per musica (music by Andrea Lucchesi , 1764)
• L'isola della fortuna (music by Andrea Lucchesi, 1765)
• Il villano geloso (music by Baldassarre Galuppi , 1769; music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann , 1770; music by Giuseppe Sarti under the title I finti eredi , 1785)
• L'anello in cantanto (music by Ferdinando Bertoni , 1771)
• Calandrino (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga , 1771; music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga and Giacomo Rust under the title L'avaro deluso , 1773; music by Antonio Sacchini , 1778)
• L'inimico delle donne (music by Baldassarre Galuppi, 1771; music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga under the title Zon-Zon principe di Kibin-Kinka , 1773)
• La locanda (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1771; music by Giovanni Paisiello under the title Il fanatico in berlina , 1791)
• L'isola di Alcina (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1771–1772; music by Giacomo Rust, 1772; music by Alessandro Bianchi , 1794)
• I visionari (music by Gennaro Astarita , 1772; music by Giovanni Paisiello under the title Gli astrologi immaginari , 1779)
• La contessa di Bimbimpoli (music by Gennaro Astarita, 1772)
• la tomba di Merlino (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1772)
• Armida (music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, 1773; music by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg , 1786)
• Mirandolina (music by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , 1773; music by Luigi Caruso under the title La virtuosa alla moda , 1776; music by Vincenzo Fabrizi under the title L'amore per interest , 1787)
• Il tamburo notturno (music by Giovanni Paisiello , 1773; music by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi under the title Il tamburo )
• La villanella incostante (music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, 1773)
• Il marito che non ha mogli (music by Gennaro Astarita, 1774)
• Il geloso in cimento (music by Pasquale Anfossi , 1774)
• Il principe ipocondriaco (music by Gennaro Astarita, 1774; music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann , 1776)
• L'avoro (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1775; music by Gennaro Astarita, 1776; music by Ferdinando Orlandi , 1801)
• L'amor bizzarro ossia La gelosa di sé stesso (music by Giacomo Rust, 1775)
• La novità (music by Felice Alessandri , 1775; music by Giovanni Valentini under the title Il capriccio drammatico , 1787)
• La donna unabile (music by Giovanni Battista Borghi , 1776; music by Antonio Boroni , 1776; music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1776; music by Giovanni Battista Borghi under the title Gli tre pretendenti , 1777)
• Isabella e Rodrigo ossia La costanza in amore (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1776)
• Lo sposo disperato (music by Pasquale Anfossi, also under the title Il zotico incivilito , 1777; music by Vicenzo Nusco , 1808)
• Il curioso indiscreto (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1777) - uncertain attribution
• La forza delle donne (music by Pasquale Anfossi, also under the title Il trionfo delle donne , 1778; music by Bernardo Ottani under the title Le amazzoni , 1784; music by Peter von Winter under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso ; music by Giuseppe Nicolini under the title Ogus ossia Il trionfo del bel sesso , 1799)
• Il cavaliero errante (music by Tommaso Traetta , 1778)
• Le industrie amorose (music by Bernardo Ottani, 1778; music by Pasquale Anfossi under the title Il matrimonio per inganno , 1779)
• La vendemmia (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, also under the title Le vendemmie , 1778)
• Azorre di Kibinga (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1779)
• Le nozze in contrasto (music by Giovanni Valentini, 1779)
• Il più bel dono inutile (music by Antonio Rosetti , 1779)
• I quaqueri (music by Antonio Rosetti, 1779)
• Li rivali ridicoli (music by Michele Mortellari , 1780)
• La statua matematica (music by Giovanni Valentini, 1780; music by Luigi Caruso under the title L'antiquario burlato ossia La statua matematica , 1786)
• Le teste deboli (music by Francesco Salari, 1780)
• L'imbroglio delle tre spose (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1781)
• Il marito geloso (music by Luigi Caruso, 1781)
• L'opera nuova (music by Matteo Rauzzini , 1781)
• Lo sposalizio per dispetto (music by Gaetano Monti , 1781)
• Gli amanti alla prova (music by Luigi Caruso, 1783; music by Francesco Piticchio , also under the title Gli amanti dispettosi , 1784)
• Le due sorelle incognite (music by Antonio Calegari , 1783)
• La villanella rapita (music by Francesco Bianchi , 1783)
• Il serraglio di Osmano (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1784)
• Le spose ricuperate (music by Luigi Caruso, also under the title I campi elisi ossia Le spose ricuperate , 1785)
• L'amore costante (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1786; music by Pierre Dutillieu under the title Nannerina e Pandolfino ossia Gli sposi in cimento , 1792)
• La contessa di Novaluna (music by Vincenzo Fabrizi , 1786)
• Le donne fanatiche (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1786)
• Chi sta bene non si muova (music by Ferdinando Robuschi , 1787)
• Don Giovanni Tenorio (music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga, 1787)
• L'orfanella americana (music by Pasquale Anfossi, 1787; music by Friedrich Christoph Gestewitz , 1791)
• Il curioso accidente (music by Gennaro Astarita, 1789)
• La fata capricciosa (music by Francesco Gardi , 1789)
• Il pazzo glorioso (music by Marcello Bernardini , 1790)
• Il fanatico in berlina (music by Giovanni Paisiello , 1791)
• L'impresario in scompiglio (music by Gennaro Astarita, 1791)
• Il matrimonio segreto (music by Domenico Cimarosa , 1792; music by Anchille Graffigna , 1883)
• Amor rende segace (music by Domenico Cimarosa, 1793)
• La principessa di Amalfi (music by Joseph Weigl , also under the title La contessa di Amalfi , 1794)
• La bella Lauretta (music by Francesco Gardi, 1795)
• L'intrigo amoroso (music by Ferdinando Paër , also under the titles Il male vien dal buco , Saed ossia Il serraglio and Gli intrighi del serraglio , 1795)
• Andromeda (music by Nicola Antonio Zingarelli , 1796)
• La donna innamorata (music by Giuseppe Nicolini , 1796)
• La donna di genio volubile (music by Marcos António Portugal , 1796)
• L'amor l'astuzia insegna (music by Francesco Gardi, 1797; music by Francesco Gardi, 1801)
• Il medico di Lucca (music by Sebastiano Nasolini , also under the title Il medico dei bagni , 1797)
• La pace (music by Vincenzo Panza ; music by Simon Mayr and Gaetano Marinelli , 1798)
• Le tre orfanelle ossia la Scola di musica (music by Marcello Bernardini , 1798)
• Gli umori contrari (music by Sebastiano Nasolini, 1798)
• La bella selvaggia (music by Antonio Salieri, 1802)

literature

• John Warrack, Ewan West: The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1992, ISBN 0-19-869164-5 .