Giulio Cesare Corradi Explained

Giulio Cesare Corradi (Parma, c.1650 - Venice, 1701 or 1702^[1]) was an Italian opera librettist.

No biographical information exists prior to 1674 and the appearance of his first work.

Libretti

• La schiava fortunata (1674), set by Ziani
• La divisione del mondo (1675), set by Legrenzi at the Teatro San Salvador.
• Germanico sul Reno (1676), set by Legrenzi
• Creso (1681), set by Legrenzi
• I due Cesari (1683), set by Legrenzi
• Il gran Tamerlano (1689), set by Ziani - reworked by Christian Heinrich Postel for Johann Philipp Förtsch at the Oper am Gänsemarkt 1690.
• Domizio (1696), set by Ziani
• Primislao primo re di Boemia (1697), set by Albinoni
• Tigrane re d'Armenia (1697), set by Albinoni
• Egisto re di Cipro (1698), set by Ziani
• La pastorella al soglio (opera postuma Oct. 1702) set by various composers, at Teatro San Cassiano

Notes and References

1. Eleanor Selfridge-Field A new chronology of Venetian opera and related genres, 1660-1760 p252 footnote 63 "opera postuma"