Domenico Annibali
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Domenico Annibali was an Italian castrato who had an active international career from 1725–1764. He began his career in his native country and was then committed to the Grosses Königliches Opernhaus i
One of two portraits of Domenico Annibali by Anton Raphael Mengs
Pietro Metastasio
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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
Metastasio, c. 1770 by Meytens or Batoni
Statue of Metastasio in Rome, in front of the Santa Maria in Vallicella
Opere drammatiche, oratorj sacri e poesie liriche (1737)