Giulio Cesare Corradi (

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 inhabitants, Parma is the second mos ...

, c.1650 -

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...

, 1701 or 1702Eleanor Selfridge-Field ''A new chronology of Venetian opera and related genres, 1660-1760'' p252 footnote 63 "opera postuma") was an Italian opera

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

. No biographical information exists prior to 1674 and the appearance of his first work.

Libretti

*''La schiava fortunata'' (1674), set by Ziani *''

La divisione del mondo ''La divisione del mondo'' (en: ''The Division of the World'') is an opera in 3 acts by composer Giovanni Legrenzi. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Giulio Cesare Corradi and was commissioned by the Marquis Guido Rangoni. The oper ...

'' (1675), set by

Legrenzi Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and ext ...

at the Teatro San Salvador. *''Germanico sul Reno'' (1676), set by

*''Creso'' (1681), set by

*''I due Cesari'' (1683), set by

*''Il gran Tamerlano'' (1689), set by Ziani - reworked by

Christian Heinrich Postel Christian Heinrich Postel (11 October 1658 – 22 March 1705) was a German jurist, epic poet and opera librettist, who wrote 28 libretti for the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg: set by composers such as Johann Philipp Förtsch, Reinhard Keiser and ...

for

Johann Philipp Förtsch Johann Philipp Förtsch (14 May 1652 - 14 December 1732) was a German baroque composer, statesman and doctor. Life Förtsch was born in Wertheim and possibly received his musical education from Johann Philipp Krieger. Moving to Hamburg in 1674 to ...

at the

Oper am Gänsemarkt The Oper am Gänsemarkt was a theatre in Hamburg, Germany, built in 1678 after plans of Girolamo Sartorio at the Gänsemarkt square. It was the first public opera house to be established in Germany: not a court opera, as in many other towns. E ...

1690. *''Domizio'' (1696), set by Ziani *''Primislao primo re di Boemia'' (1697), set by

Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera comp ...

*''Tigrane re d'Armenia'' (1697), set by

*''Egisto re di Cipro'' (1698), set by Ziani *''La pastorella al soglio'' (opera postuma Oct. 1702) set by various composers, at

Teatro San Cassiano The Teatro San Cassiano (or Teatro di San Cassiano and other variants) in Venice was the world’s first public opera theatre, inaugurated as such in 1637. The first mention of its construction dates back to 1581. The name with which it is best know ...

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