Vittorio Trento

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Vittorio Trento (* 1761 , different: 1765 in Venice , † 1833 in Lisbon ) was an Italian composer .

Life

Vittorio Trento was a student of the church composer Ferdinando Bertoni , who worked as Kapellmeister at the Capella ducale in San Marco in Venice and taught at the Conservatorio dei Mendicanti.

He began his musical career with the fact that he was employed in various functions at the various theaters in Venice. However, he began to commit himself to composing at an early age and initially concentrated on ballet music for several years before moving on to opera .

His first ballet Mastino della Scala was premiered in Venice in 1785 and the ballet La virtù riconosciuta followed in the same year . This led to the fact that he was asked by various Italian theaters to write new ballets, which he continued with Enrichetta di Valcur and Il seraglio ossia l'Equivoco in Equivoco in 1788 and 1791 with Flamingo .

In 1789 he made his debut as an opera singer in Verona with his work Orfeo negli Elisi .

His first opera Terese vedova was performed in Venice in 1791 , which was followed by more until 1804.

In the mid-1790s, encouraged by his friend, the composer Domenico Dragonetti , he went to London and performed his ballet piece The Triumph of Love there. It was also published as an engraving under the title The Triumph ob Love a Favorite Ballet, performed at the Drury-Lane Theater in London in 1797 and remained the English favorite ballet for years.

In 1806 he took over the direction of an Italian opera in Amsterdam , where he had great success with both his opera La donna giudice and the oratorio The Deluge in 1808; then he went to the Opera de São Carlos in Lisbon and wrote several pieces there.

In 1819 he returned to Italy and stayed first in Rome and in 1820 in Venice; there, among other things, his opera Quanti casi in un sol giorno ossia gli assassini was performed, which is described as his best work and appeared in Dresden in 1808 as a lot of incidents in one day .

From 1821 to 1824 he stayed in Lisbon again until he returned to Italy. In Bologna in 1824 his opera Giulia Salina in Langres was published .

Works (selection)

  • Orfeo negli Elisi , 1789 in Verona at the Sala degli Accademici Riuniti .
  • Demofoonte , 1791 in Venice.
  • Il cucù scopre tutto , 1796 in Florence at the Teatro Pallacorda .
  • Quanti casi in un sol giorno ossia Gli assassini , December 1801 in Venice at the Teatro Venier di S. Benedetto ; revised in the summer of 1817 as commedia per musica in two acts, with texts in the Neapolitan dialect by Giuseppe Palomba in Naples in the Teatro de 'Fiorentini; also performed as Gli assassini, Roberto l'assassino, Roberto capo d'assassini, La foresta di Nicobar .
  • Teresa Vedova , January 13, 1802 in Venice at the Teatro Venier di S. Benedetto .
  • Le nozze dei Morlacchi , June 1802 in Padua at the Teatro Nuovo .
  • Ines de Castro in Livorno in 1803 .
  • La baronessa immaginaria , Carnival 1804 in Rome at the Teatro Capranica .
  • Ifigenia in Aulide , November 4, 1804 in Naples at the Teatro San Carlo .
  • Andromeda , May 30, 1805 in Naples at the Teatro S. Carlo .
  • I vecchi delusi ossia La burla , autumn 1805 in Naples at the Teatro Nuovo .
  • Lots of incidents in one day: a comical opera in two acts: for the Königl. Saxon theater . Dresden 1808.
  • La Climène , April 25, 1811 in London at the King's Theater .
  • Emilia di Laverpaut , in Naples in the summer of 1817.
  • Le gelosie villane , Carnival 1824 in Livorno at the Teatro Carlo Lodovico and on November 2, 1825 in Florence at the Teatro in via del Cocomero .

Literature (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teresa Vedova. Libretto. Digitized from the Library of Congress .
  2. ↑ Many incidents in one day. Libretto. Digitized from the Library of Congress .
personal data
SURNAME Trento, Vittorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 1833
Place of death Lisbon