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Giuseppe Maria Foppa

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Italian librettist (1760-1845)
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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. He composed work for theatres in Milan, Genoa, Pistoia, Padua, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, and Florence.

Librettos

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  1. 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,"
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