Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) ( 1595 – 1667) was a Roman

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, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to

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. The first two works, in 1637 and 1638, to be put on commercially in the Teatro San Cassiano were both by Manelli - his ''L'Andromeda'' and ''La Maga Fulminata''. Francesco Manelli was for many years confused with the Franciscan friar Giovanni Battista Fasolo, because of the resemblances between Manelli's cantata ''Luciata'', (published in ''Musiche varie,'' op. 4 Venice, 1636), and Fasolo's dialogue ''Il carro di Madama Lucia'' (Rome, 1628), and the shared text of the first piece in both collections. In a comparison of the two cantatas Fasolo's version is "languid and melancholy", while Manelli's version is "spirited and biting". A mid-14th-century Florentine scholar of the same name, also called ''dei Pontigiano'', was a close friend of

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.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 3, by Felice Scifoni, David Passigli, publisher, Florence (1844); page 890.

Works

Operas, music for all of which is lost. *''L'Andromeda'' (libretto: Benedetto Ferrari) (1637) *''La maga fulminata'' (Ferrari) (1638) *''Delia ossia La sera sposa del sole'' ( Giulio Strozzi) (1639) *''Il pastor regio'' (Ferrari) 1640 *''L'Adone'' (

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) (1640) *''L'Alcate'' ( Marc' Antonio Tirabosco) (1642) *''Ercole nell'Erimanto'' ( Bernardo Morando) (1651) *''Le vicende del tempo'' (Morando) (1652) *''Il ratto d'Europa'' ( Paolo Emilio Fantuzzi / Elvezio Sandri) (1653) *''La Filo, overo Giunone repacificata con Ercole'' ( Francesco Berni) (1660) *''La Licasta'' (Ferrari) (1664) Cantatas *''Musiche varie'' Op. 4 (1636)

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*duet - ''Ti lascio empia, inconstante''. ''Musiche varie,'' Op. 4

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(Soprano), Derek Lee Ragin (Countertenor), Love and Death in Venice, Teatro Lirico, dir.

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Virgin Classics 1996

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