Caterino Mazzolà
Caterino Tommaso Mazzolà (18 January 1745 at Longarone – 16 July 1806 in Venice) was an Italian poet and librettist. Born into a wealthy family from the islands of Murano, he and his family moved to Venice around 1767, but after a few years he moved to Treviso. He married in 1780 and having already met Giacomo Casanova and Lorenzo Da Ponte, started work as a librettist.After 1780, Joseph Schuster helped Mazzolà to be appointed as Dresden's court poet; he held the post until 1796. During this period, he worked with Da Ponte and met Antonio Salieri, who suggested that Mazzolà could write the libretto for an opera buffa entitled ''La scuola de' gelosi'' which premiered in 1778. In 1783 the opera appeared in Vienna. Mazzolà's libretto ''L'isola capricciosa,'' first set to music by Giacomo Rust and performed in Venice in 1780, was later set to music by Salieri and performed under the title ''Il mondo alla rovescia'' (Venice, 1795). This libretto contains a scena (recitative and aria) that Mozart set to music as one of his finest concert arias ("Misero! O sogno," K. 431).
Early in 1791, Mazzolà briefly became the Viennese court poet through Da Ponte and Salieri. Later that year he significantly revised Metastasio's text for Mozart's new setting of ''La clemenza di Tito'' (originally created in 1734, on a music by Antonio Caldara). Da Ponte and Salieri had suggested that Mazzolà would be a suitable poet for Count Rosenberg, the court theatre director. However, Giovanni Bertati replaced Rosenberg, and Mazzolà retreated to Dresden. In 1796, he returned to Venice, but Friedrich August III of Dresden helped Mazzolà to engage in diplomatic work, and requested that some of his writings should be sent back to the Saxon court each year.
Mazzolà's librettos are mostly ''opere buffe'' and set by the Dresden composers Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Joseph Schuster and Franz Seydelmann. Seydelmann's best Italian opera was ''Il turco in Italia'' (1788), described by Constanze Mozart after a performance in Vienna in 1789. Mazzolà's libretto was reworked by Felice Romani for Rossini's ''Il turco in Italia'' which premiered in 1814. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806
Published 1776
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2by Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 2007
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5by Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825, Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825, Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806, Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806
Published 2002
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6by Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868, Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868, Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 2005
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7by Orlandi, Ferdinando, 1777-1848Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1813
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8by Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1778
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9by Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1778
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10by Guglielmi, Pietro Alessandro, 1728-1804Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1769
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11by Orland, Ferdinando, 1774-1848Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1808
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12by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1811
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13by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1993
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15by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 2008
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17by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1920
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18by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1969
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19by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1984
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20by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791Other Authors: “...Mazzolà, Caterino, 1745-1806...”
Published 1822
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