Giovanni Battista Locatelli
Opera Director
1713 – 1785
Who was Giovanni Battista Locatelli?
Giovanni Battista Locatelli was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company.
In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to give open public performances. The repertoire was mostly of Italian opera buffa. During the first three years the troupe presented seven operas by Baldassare Galuppi:
Il filosofo di campagna
L'Arcadia in Brenta
I bagni d'Abano
Il conte Caramella
La calamità de' cuori
Il mondo alla roversa, ossia Le donne che commandono
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