Count Nicolò Beregan (also Berengani and Bergani;[1] 1627-1713) was an Italian nobleman, lawyer and amateur opera librettist.[2] His Giustino was first set to music in 1683 by composer Giovanni Legrenzi for Il Giustino, and later reused by both Vivaldi (Giustino, 1724) and Handel (Giustino, 1737).[3]
Librettos
edit- Annibale in Capita, set by Pietro Andrea Ziani, 1661[4]
References
edit- ^ Holmes, William C. (2001). "Beregan, Nicolò". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
- ^ Ellen Rosand Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre 2007 Page 188 "In other seasons Faustini managed to convince a variety of noblemen and a canon to turn author: Counts Zaguri and Nicolo Beregan in 1660 and 1661, respectively, and Dott. Cristoforo Ivanovich in 1663."
- ^ Music As Social and Cultural Practice Page 217 Melania Bucciarelli, Berta Joncus - 2007 "Nicolò Beregan's Giustino, first staged in 1683 and set by Vivaldi for Rome in 1724, has two successful couples, Giustino–Leocasta and Arianna–Anastasio, "
- ^ Rivista politica e letteraria Volume 8 1899 Page 161 "All' Annibale in Capita, melodramma con poesia del conte Nicolò Beregan, patrizio veneto, e musica di D. Pietro Andrea Ziani, dato nel febbraio del 1661 nel teatro dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo, vi fu una tale ressa che una simile non si era mai "