Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian impresario and librettist
Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1713
Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Date of Death: 14-Mar-1785
Profession: impresario, librettist
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Giovanni Battista Locatelli
- Giovanni Battista Locatelli (7 January 1713 – 14 March 1785) was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company. Locatelli was court poet at Bonn in 1741.
- From 1748 to 1756 he presented opera productions in Prague, including works by Gluck to libretti by Metastasio.
- He presented other operas in Dresden as well in the 1750s.
- He went bankrupt in 1757 and left for Russia to relaunch his career as an impresario.In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St.
- Petersburg.
- They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to give open public performances.
- The repertoire was mostly of Italian opera buffa, including one titled Sanctuary of the Gods.
- The Empress and Grand Duke Peter each attended at least one performance.
- He moved his troupe to Moscow in 1759 where he operated a theater with financial support from the state until he declared bankruptcy in 1762, after the theater was unable to present performances following the death of Empress Elizabeth.
- Empress Catherine II paid him 3,000 rubles for his years of service in presenting the highest standard of opera performance Russia had ever seen.
- He ended his career running a cabaret on the outskirts of St.
- Petersburg that "enjoyed the patronage of an exclusive clientele".During its years in Russia the troupe presented seven operas by Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785): Il mondo della luna (Russian: ?????? ??? – The World of the Moon, previously premiered in 1750, Venice) Il filosofo di campagna (??????????? ??????? – The Village Philosopher, 1754, Venice) L'Arcadia in Brenta (??????? ? ?????? – Arcadia in Brenta, 1749, Venice) I bagni d'Abano (??????? ? ????? – The Spa of Abano, written together with Bertoni, 1753, Venice) Il conte Caramella (???? ????????? – Count Caramella, 1749, Verona?) La calamità de' cuori (????????? ???????? – A Calamity of Hearts, 1752, Venice) Il mondo alla roversa, ossia Le donne che commandono (??? ?????????, ??? ??????? ????????? – The World Upside Down, or Women in Command, 1750, Venice)
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