- Giuseppe Bonecchi
Giuseppe Bonecchi - was an Italian poet and opera librettist.
He was brought to Russia in 1740 by
Francesco Araja , an Italian composer working inRussia .His opera
Il Bellerofonte , which was written for the coronation ofElizabeth of Russia , praised the virtues of the Empress. A Russian translation was printed in 1757. Another opera calledScipione was written for the wedding celebration of Elisaveta and Pyotr Feodorovich. He frequently used to plagiarize the work of other poets and dramatists, and this spoiled his reputation. He left for Italy in 1752.Operas
He wrote the libretti for the following operas by
Francesco Araja ::*"Seleuco", opera seria, (
May 7 ,1744 [OSApril 26 ] ,Moscow ) :*"Scipione", opera seria, (September 4 or 5,1745 [OS August 23 or 24] ,St. Petersburg ) :*"Mitridate", opera seria, (May 7 ,1747 [OS April 26] ,St. Petersburg ) :*"L'asilo della pace", opera seria, (May 7 ,1748 [OS April 26] ,St. Petersburg ) :*"Il Bellerofonte", opera seria, (December 9 ,1750 [OS November 28] ,St. Petersburg ) :*"Eudossa incoronata, o sia Teodosio II", (May 9 ,1751 [OS April 28]St. Petersburg )Quotations
“Alexander Sumarokov angrily exclaimed in the letter to I. I. Shuvalov on March 12, 1761: “I am assigned to the post of a Director of the Theatre but not to the mean title of a theatrical poet, which was Bonecchi... But I will be not a Bonecchi-like theatrical poet even if this would cost me a life…”” ("Konstantin Kovalev")
External links
* [http://www.hi-edu.ru/xPol/index.htm?pages/03/211.htm Большой Русский Биографический Словарь - Big Russian Biographical Dictionary (the electronic version, in Russian)]
* [http://www.kkovalev.ru/Shtelin.htm Konstantin Kovalev (Константин Ковалев): Forgotten Notes on Music (in Russian)]
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