Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi

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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known as Pietro Metastasio, was an influential 18th-century Italian poet and librettist whose works shaped the development of opera seria across Europe.

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instanceOf Italian poet
dramatist
human
librettist
alsoKnownAs Pietro Metastasio
birthDate 1698-01-03
birthPlace Papal States
Rome
countryOfCitizenship Papal States
deathDate 1782-04-12
deathPlace Habsburg Monarchy
Vienna
era 18th century
familyName Trapassi
genre melodrama
opera seria
givenName Antonio
Domenico
Pietro
hasInfluenced Antonio Caldara
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Johann Adolf Hasse
influenced 18th-century European opera
development of opera seria
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
memberOf Arcadian Academy
movement Arcadian poetry
Italian Enlightenment
nativeLanguage Italian
notableFor standardizing the structure of opera seria libretti
widespread setting of his libretti by major composers
notableWork Achille in Sciro
linked to: Achilles on Scyros

Adriano in Siria
Artaserse
Demofoonte
Didone abbandonata
La clemenza di Tito
Olimpiade
occupation dramatist
librettist
poet
positionHeld court poet of the Habsburg monarchy
pseudonym Metastasio
linked to: Pietro Metastasio
residence Naples
Rome
Vienna
workLocation Naples
Rome
Vienna

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Pietro Metastasio birthName Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi