Marco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer. He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and Cesare Beccaria.

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  • Marco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer. He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and Cesare Beccaria. Coltellini was very interested in opera and made the acquaintance of Metastasio (the leading librettist of opera seria) as well as Gluck, Ranieri de' Calzabigi and Giacomo Durazzo, who were involved in the reform of Italian opera. In 1763, Coltellini succeeded Metastasio as the Imperial Poet at the Court of Vienna. He provided libretti for Gluck, Hasse and Salieri, as well as revising Carlo Goldoni's La finta semplice so it could be set by Mozart. His collaboration with Traetta, Ifigenia in Aulide (1763), developed the operatic innovations of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. Coltellini was dismissed from the post in 1772 after one of his satires angered the Empress Maria Theresia, and he accepted the job of official librettist for the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Here he provided texts for Giovanni Paisiello and Traetta. He again fell into disgrace and his sudden death was rumoured to be the result of poisoning.
  • Marco Coltellini est un librettiste d'opéra, né à Livourne en 1719 et mort à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1777. Il est connu aussi par son activité de typographe et éditeur.
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  • August 2009
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  • culture
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  • Marco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer. He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and Cesare Beccaria.
  • Marco Coltellini est un librettiste d'opéra, né à Livourne en 1719 et mort à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1777. Il est connu aussi par son activité de typographe et éditeur.
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  • Marco Coltellini
  • Marco Coltellini
  • Marco Coltellini
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