Francesco Sbarra

Francesco Sbarra (19 February 1611 – 20 March 1668) was an Italian poet and librettist.[1] Born in Lucca, he spent most of his career in Austria where he wrote the librettos for entertainments and operas at the courts of Archduke Ferdinand Charles in Innsbruck and Emperor Leopold I in Vienna.[2][3]

Francesco Sbarra
Sbarra's libretto for Le Lachrime di San Pietro (performed in Vienna, 1666)
Born
Lucca, Italy
Baptised19 February 1611
Died(1668-03-20)20 March 1668
Vienna, Austria
OccupationPoet, librettist

Librettos
  • Alessandro vincitor di se stesso (opera in a prologue and 3 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Venice 1651
  • Venere cacciatrice, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck 1659
  • La magnanimità d'Alessandro, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck, 1662
  • Nettuno e Flora festeggianti (azione teatrale), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1666
  • Le Lachrime di San Pietro (azione sacra), set by Giovanni Felice Sances. Vienna. 1666
  • Le disgrazie d'Amore, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
  • La Germania esultante , set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
  • Il pomo d'oro (opera in a prologue and 5 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1668
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References
  1. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). Retrieved 4 July 2016 (in French).
  2. Catalano, Alessandro (2002). "L'arrivo di Francesco Sbarra in Europa centrale e la mediazione del cardinale Ernst Adalbert von Harrach" in Brigitte Marschall (ed.) Maske und Kothurn, Vol. 48, pp. 203-213. Retrieved 4 July 2016 (in Italian).
  3. Franchi, Saverio (1997). Drammaturgia romana, Vol. 2, pp. 375–378; 404; 456; 912. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (in Italian)
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