Nicolò Minato
Count Nicolò Minato (b.
librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna
, from 1669 until his death.
Minato is best remembered for his vast output as a librettist for
Emperor Leopold I
.
At Vienna he wrote over 170 librettos, averaging around 5 a year, in genres as diverse as Telemann.
References
- Rosand, Ellen & Seifert, Herbert (2001). "Nicolò Minato". In ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
Bibliography
- S. T. Worsthorne: Venetian Opera in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1954)
- J. Glover: Cavalli (London, 1978)
- E. Rutschman: The Minato-Cavalli Operas: the search for Structure in Libretto and Solo Scene (diss., U. of Washington, 1979)
- E. Rutschman: Minato and the Venetian Opera Libretto, CMc, no.27 (1982), 84–91
- E. Rosand: Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: the Creation of a Genre (Berkeley, 1991)
- N. Hiltl: Die Oper am Hofe Kaiser Leopolds I. mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tätigkeit von Minato und Draghi (diss., U. of Vienna, 1974)
- F. Hadamowsky: Barocktheater am Wiener Kaiserhof, Jb der Geschichte für Wiener Theaterforschung 1951–2 (1955), 7–96
- L. Bianconi: Funktionen des Operntheaters in Neapel bis 1700 und die Rolle Alessandro Scarlattis, Colloquium Alessandro Scarlatti: Würzburg 1975, 13–111
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