Classification · Spain
1754 – 1806
Valencia - St. Petersburg
Review
Formed as a young singer in the cathedral of Valencia, he succeeded as a composer of operas and ballets in Italy before arriving in Vienna in 1785. There, with libretos by Lorenzo Da Ponte, he premiered A rare thing (1786), which successfully surpassed the wedding of Figgaro released shortly before.
Mozart cited a melody of a rare thing at the scene of Don Giovanni's dinner. Since 1788 he worked in St. Petersburg for Catherine the Great, with a stage in London, and he died there.
Main works
- Opera Ifigenia in Aulide (Naples, 1779)
- Opera Il burbero di buon cuore (1786)
- Opera A rare thing (1786)
- Opera L'arbore di Diana (1787)
- Gorebogatyr Kopittovich (1789), with a notebook by Catherine II
- Opera La capricciosa corretta (London, 1795)
