Francesco Sbarra

Francesco Sbarra (18 February 1611 – 20 March 1668) was an Italian poet and librettist.[1] Born in Lucca, he spent most of his career in Austria where he wrote the librettos for entertainments and operas at the courts of Archduke Ferdinand Charles in Innsbruck and Emperor Leopold I in Vienna.[2][3] Sbarra was member of the Accademia degli Oscuri and the Accademia degli Accesi of Lucca. He corresponded with Michelangelo Torcigliani. His most famous libretto, Il pomo d'oro, was set to music by Antonio Cesti and performed at the imperial court in Vienna in 1668.

Francesco Sbarra
Sbarra's libretto for Le Lachrime di San Pietro (performed in Vienna, 1666)
Born
Lucca, Republic of Lucca
Baptised(1611-02-18)18 February 1611
Died20 March 1668(1668-03-20) (aged 57)
Vienna, Archduchy of Austria
Occupation(s)Poet, librettist
Spouse
Penelope Orsucci
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(m. 1633; died 1645)​
Children3
Parent(s)Filippo Sbarra and Ortensia Sbarra (née Ciampanti)

Librettos
  • Alessandro vincitor di se stesso (opera in a prologue and 3 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Venice 1651
  • Venere cacciatrice, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck 1659
  • La magnanimità d'Alessandro, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck, 1662
  • Nettuno e Flora festeggianti (azione teatrale), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1666
  • Le Lachrime di San Pietro (azione sacra), set by Giovanni Felice Sances. Vienna. 1666
  • Le disgrazie d'Amore, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
  • La Germania esultante , set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
  • Il pomo d'oro (opera in a prologue and 5 acts), set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1668

References
  1. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). Retrieved 4 July 2016 (in French).
  2. Catalano, Alessandro (2002). "L'arrivo di Francesco Sbarra in Europa centrale e la mediazione del cardinale Ernst Adalbert von Harrach" in Brigitte Marschall (ed.) Maske und Kothurn, Vol. 48, pp. 203-213. Retrieved 4 July 2016 (in Italian).
  3. Franchi, Saverio (1997). Drammaturgia romana, Vol. 2, pp. 375–378; 404; 456; 912. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura (in Italian)
  • Usula, Nicola (2018). "SBARRA, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 91: Savoia–Semeria (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
  • Complete librettos and other works by Sbarra on archive.org
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