Gaetano Latilla

Gaetano Latilla (January 12, 1711 – 1788) was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni (his nephew).cite book | author = Daniel Heartz | title = Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780 | year = 2003 | publisher = W. W. Norton & Co. | id = ISBN 0393050807 | pages = pp. 156–157]

Latilla was born in Bari, and studied at the Loreto Conservatory in Naples. He began writing comic operas for the Fiorentini Theatre in Naples in 1732, and is best known for his settings of "Gismondo" (Rome, 1737) and "Madama Ciana" (Rome, 1738). These two works, along with two by Rinaldo da Capua, formed the core of the traveling Italian comic opera repertory of the 1740s and early 1750s. He also wrote some serious operas, the first of which was a setting of "Demofoonte" (Venice, 1738). [cite book | author = James McKinnon | title = Source Readings in Music History | year = 1998 | publisher = W. W. Norton & Co. | id = ISBN 0393037525 | pages = p. 579]

Operas

*"Li mariti a forza" (opera buffa, libretto by Bernardo Saddumene, 1732, Naples)
*"L'Ottavio" (commedia per musica, libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, 1733, Naples)
*"Gl'ingannati" (commedia per musica, libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, 1734, Naples)
*"Angelica ed Orlando" (commedia per musica, libretto by Francesco Antonio Tullio, 1735, Naples)
*"Lo sposo senza moglie (I due supposti conti)" libretto by C. Palma, commedia per musica, 1736, Naples)
*"Gismondo" (commedia per musica, libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, 1737, Naples), as "La finta cameriera" (libretto di Giovanni Gualtiero Barlocci, 1738, Rome)
*"Temistocle" (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1737, Rome)
*"Demofoonte" (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1738, Venice)
*"Madama Ciana" (commedia per musica, libretto by Giovanni Gualtiero Barlocci, 1738, Rome)
*"Polipodio e Rocchetta" (intermezzo, 1738, Rome)
*"Romolo" (dramma per musica, 1739, Rome)
*"Siroe" (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1740, Rome)
*"Alceste in Ebuda" (dramma per musica libretto by Trabucco, 1741, Naples)
*"La vendetta generosa" (commedia per musica, 1742, Naples)
*"Zenobia" (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1742, Turin)
*"La gara per la gloria" (divertimento teatrale, libretto by Bartolomeo Vitturi, 1744, Venice)
*"Amare e fingere" (commedia per musica, 1745, Naples)
*"Il concerto" (commedia per musica, libretto by Pietro Trinchera, 1746, Naples)
*"Adriano in Siria" (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1747, Naples)
*"Catone in Utica" (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1747, Rome)
*"Ciascheduno ha il suo negozio" (commedia per musica, 1747, Madrid)
*"Il barone di Vignalomba" (commedia per musica, libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1747, Naples)
*"Il vecchio amante (La commedia in commedia)" (opera buffa, Giovanni Gualtiero Barlocci, 1747, Turin)
*"La Celia" (commedia per musica, libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1749, Naples)
*"Amore in Tarantola" (commedia per musica, libretto by Abate Vaccina, 1750, Venice)
*"Il gioco de' matti" (commedia per musica, libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1750, Naples)
*"L'astuzia felice" (commedia per musica, libretto by Carlo Goldoni, 1750, Turin)
*"Gl'imperatori" (dramma per musica, 1751, Venice)
*"Griselda" (dramma per musica, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1751,Venice)

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