Giacomo Rust or Rusti (1741 in Rome, Italy – 1786 in Barcelona, Spain) was an Italian opera composer, probably of German ancestry.
Not a great deal is known about Rust. Between 1763 and 1777, Rust was active in Venice, where his first opera, a dramma giocoso, La contadina in corte, to a libretto by Niccolò Tassi, was performed in 1763. During this period, Rust acquired great fame as opera composer, not only in Italy, but also abroad, which gained him an invitation to be employed in the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg. On 12 June 1777, he was named a choir master at the Salzburg court, a post that he abandoned towards the end of the year. Some time later, Rust returned to Venice to continue his operatic activity. In 1783, he settled down in Barcelona, where he assumed the office of the Maestro de capilla.
The following is the list of the operas composed by Rust.
| Title | Genre! | Subdivisions | Libretto! | Première date | Place, theatre | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La contadina in corte | 3 acts | Niccolò Tassi | 1763 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | ||||
| La finta semplice | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Pasquale Mililotti | spring 1772 | Bologna, Formagliari | |||
| L'idolo cinese | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Giovanni Battista Lorenzi | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | ||||
| Il conte Baccellone | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | autumn 1774 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | ||||
| I cavalieri lunatici | 3 acts | autumn 1774 | Venice, San Cassiano | |||||
| L'amor bizzaro | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | carnival 1775 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | ||||
| Li due amanti in inganno (Acts 1 & 3, act 2 by) | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | carnival 1775 | Venice, San Cassiano | ||||
| Alessandro nelle Indie | 3 acts | Ascension 1775 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | |||||
| Il baron in terra asciuta | dramma giocoso | 8 scenes | 26 December 1775 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | ||||
| Il Socrate immaginario | dramma giocoso | 15 scenes | Giovanni Battista Lorenzi | carnival 1776 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | |||
| Calliroe | dramma per musica | 3 acts | June 1776 | Padua, Nuovo | ||||
| Il Giove di Creta | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | autumn 1776 | Venice, San Cassiano | ||||
| Li due protetti | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Pier Antonio Bagliacca | 26 December 1776 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | |||
| Il Parnaso confuso | 1 act | Metastasio | 17 May 1778 | Salzburg, Hof[1] [2] | ||||
| Vologeso, re de' Parti | dramma per musica | 2 acts | A Zeno | 28 December 1778 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | |||
| Il talismano (Act 2, Act 3) (Act 1 by Antonio Salieri) | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | 21 August 1779 | Milan | ||||
| L'isola capricciosa | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Caterino Mazzolà | carnival 1780 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | |||
| Gli antiquari in Palmira | 3 acts | autumn 1780 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala | |||||
| Demofoonte | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | autumn 1780 | Florence, Pergola | |||
| Il castellano deluso | carnival 1781 | Parma, Ducale | ||||||
| Artaserse | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | autumn 1781 | Perugia, Civico | |||
| Adriano in Siria | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1781 | Turin, Teatro Regio | |||
| L'incognita fortunata | 1 act | G. Ciliberti | summer 1782 | Naples, Fondo | ||||
| L'incontri inaspettati | February 1783 | Rome, Capranica | ||||||
| La caccia d'Enrico IV | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | A. Dian | autumn 1783 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | |||
| Il marito indolente | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Caterino Mazzolà | 1784 | Vienna, Hoftheater | |||
| Berenice | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Jacopo Durandi | carnival 1786 | Parma |