Giuseppe Maria Foppa
Giuseppe Maria Foppa (Venice, 12 July 1760 – Venice, 1 March 1845) was an Italian librettist. He wrote around 150 libretti, mainly for comic operas, as well as Latin oratorio texts and his memoirs.Richard Osborne ''Rossini'' 2007 0199724407 p.368 "Foppa, Giuseppe (1760–1845), librettist. An archivist and government official, he wrote some 150 opera libretti. A master of the one-act farsa popular in Venice from the early 1790s, he drew his material from French and Neapolitan sources," Librettos * ''Romeo and Juliet'', for Nicola Antonio Zingarelli *''L'inganno felice'', '' La scala di seta'', ''Il signor Bruschino'' and ''Sigismondo'' (1814) for Gioachino Rossini *''Gli artigiani'', 1795 for Pasquale Anfossi *''L'intrigo della lettera'' 1797, and several oratorios for Simone Mayr *''Lo spazzacamino principe'' 1794, and ''Le donne cambiate'' 1797 for Marcos António Portugal *''Teresa e Claudio'', 1801 for Giuseppe Farinelli *'' Le metamorfosi di Pasquale'', 1802 for Gas ...
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Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ...
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