Nicolò Minato
Count Nicolò Minato (b. Bergamo, ca. 1627; d. Vienna, 28 February 1698) was an Italian poet, librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna, from 1669 until his death.Minato is best remembered for his vast output as a librettist for opera. In total, he wrote over 200 librettos. His career began with ''Orimonte'', written in 1650 for Francesco Cavalli. At this time he worked primarily as a lawyer, and it was only over a decade later that he abandoned this, his first profession, and turned fully to the composition of librettos and theatre management (as did his contemporary, Giovanni Faustini. Minato was also a member of several literary academies, including, along with Busenello, the ''Accademia degli Imperfetti'', a group that devoted itself to studying the classics and contemporary jurisprudence. He wrote 11 librettos for Venice, most of them for Cavalli, though a few were first set by Antonio Sartorio. In 1665 he became a prominent figure in the running of the Teatro San Salvador. While there he collaborated with composer Giovanni Legrenzi in revising his opera ''Zenobia e Radamisto'' in 1667. In 1669 he left Venice to take up a post in Vienna as court poet to the Emperor Leopold I.
At Vienna he wrote over 170 librettos, averaging around 5 a year, in genres as diverse as ''opera seria'' and ''festa teatrale''. In addition to his duties as a writer of secular works, Minato was also a prolific producer of sacred texts, often described as oratorios. He largely provided these texts for performances given to mark special occasions - birthdays in the royal family, for example, or possibly Lenten celebrations or court weddings. Minato was a popular librettist and after his death his works were frequently revived by composers such as Johann Adolf Hasse, Handel, Giovanni Bononcini, and Telemann. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Minato, Niccolò
Published 1692
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Published 1670
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Published 1685
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Published 1679
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Published 1679
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Published 1668
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Published 1682
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