Rinaldo di (da) Capua (

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, c. 1705 – probably

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, c. 1780) was an Italian composer. Little is known of him with any certainty, including his name, although he was known to

Charles Burney Charles Burney (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist ...

. He may have been the father of composer

Marcello Bernardini Marcello Bernardini (or Marcello da Capua; near Capua, 1730 or 1740 – around 1799) was an Italian composer and librettist. Little is known of him, save that he wrote 37 operas in his career. His father was most likely the composer Rinaldo di ...

Works

Operas

*''Ciro riconosciuto'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1737, Rome) *Untitled comic opera (1737, Rome) *''La commedia in commedia'' (dramma giocoso, libretto by

Francesco Vanneschi Francesco Vanneschi (''floruit'' 1732 – 1760) was an Italian opera manager, director and librettist; his death date is usually (and erroneously) given as 1759, but he was still alive and working at the King's Theatre in April 1760.Burden, Michael ...

, after C. A. Pelli, 1738, Rome) *''

Vologeso ''Il Vologeso'' is the title of several operas, based on the same story as Apostolo Zeno's ''Lucio Vero'', but in a later version (1700), which had first been set to music as ''Vologeso, re de' Parti'' by Rinaldo di Capua in 1739 to a libretto by ...

, re de' Parti'' (dramma per musica, libretto by

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, after ''Lucio Vero'' of

Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1668 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters. Early life Apostolo Zeno was born in Venice to a colonial branch of the Zeno family, an ancient Vene ...

, 1739, Rome) *''Farnace'' (dramma per musica, libretto by

Antonio Maria Lucchini Antonio Maria Lucchini or Luchini (Venice, c. 1690 – Venice, before 1730) was an Italian librettist. His texts were set to music by Antonio Vivaldi, Baldassare Galuppi, Leonardo Vinci, and Rinaldo di Capua, among others. Libretti *''Foca superb ...

, 1739, Venice) *''La libertà nociva'' (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Gualtiero Barlocci, 1740, Rome) *''Catone in Utica'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1740, Lisbon) *''Didone abbandonata'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon) *''Ipermestra'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon) *''Le nozze di Don Trifone'' (

intermezzo In music, an intermezzo (, , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term ha ...

, libretto by N. G. Neri, 1743, Rome) *''Turno Heredonio Aricino'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia, 1743, Rome) *''Il bravo burlato'' (intermezzo, libretto by Antonio Pavoni, 1745, Rome) *''La forza del sangue'' (intermezzo, 1746, Rome) *''La finta zingarella'' (intermezzo, 1748, Perugia) *''Il vecchio amante'' (dramma giocoso, 1748, Turin) *''Il bravo e il bello'' (intermezzo, 1748, Rome) *''Mario in Numidia'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Giampietro Tagliazucchi, 1749, Rome) *Opera comica senza titolo (1750) *''Il ripiego in amore di Flaminia finta cameriera e Turno'' (farsetta, libretto by Angelo Lungi, 1751, Rome) *''Il galoppino'' (intermezzo, 1751, Rome) *''Gli impostori'' (dramma giocoso, 1751, Modena) *''Il cavalier Mignatta' (intermezzo, 1751, Rome) *''La forza della pace'' (intermezzo, libretto by G. Puccinelli and G. Aureli, 1752, Rome) *''La serva sposa'' (intermezzo, 1753, Rome) *''L'amante delusa'' (farsetta giocosa, 1753, libretto by Antonio Pavoni, 1753, Rome) *''La zingara'' (intermezzo, 1753, Parigi) - reworked in French as ''La bohemienne'' by Favart. *''La chiavarina'' (intermezzo, libretto by G. Peruzzini and A. Luigi, 1754, Rome) *''Attalo'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Antonio Papi (pseudonimo di Cleofonte Doriano), 1754, Rome) *''La smorfiosa'' (intermezzo, 1756, Rome) *''Il capitano napoletano'' (commedia, 1756, Firenze) *''

Adriano in Siria ''Adriano in Siria'' (''Hadrian in Syria'') is a libretto by Italian poet Metastasio first performed, with music by Antonio Caldara, in Vienna in 1732, and turned into an opera by at least 60 other composers during the next century. Metastasio ...

'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1756, Rome) *''Le donne ridicole'' (intermezzo, libretto by

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, 1759, Rome) *''Il giocatore ed il cavatesori'' (intermezzo, 1762, Cagli) *''Il matrimonio in villa o sia L'amante di tutte'' (farsetta, libretto by A. Galuppi, 1762, Rome) *''Il caffè di campagna'' (farsetta, libretto by

Pietro Chiari Pietro Chiari (; 25 December 1712 – 31 August 1785) was an Italian catholic priest, playwright, novelist and librettist. Life Chiari was born and died in Brescia. He was a Jesuit until leaving the order in 1747. From 1747 to 1762 he was co ...

, 1764, Rome) *''Il passeggio in villa'' (farsetta, 1765, Rome) *''Il contadino schernito''(intermezzo, 1768, Rome) *''I finti pazzi per amore'' (farsetta, libretto by Tommaso Mariani, 1770, Rome) *''La donna vendicata, o sia L'erudito spropositato'' (farsetta, libretto by A. Pioli, 1771, Rome) *''La Giocondina'' (opera buffa, 1778, Rome)

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