Calisto Bassi [SEP] place of death
Calisto Bassi
Calisto Bassi (Cremona, beginning of the 19th centuryAbbiategrasso, c. 1860) was an Italian opera librettist.
Bassi wrote many original librettos and was also active as translator into Italian of several librettos from other languages. For many years he was also stage director at La Scala in Milan.
Translations.
This is a partial list of librettos translated into Italian by Bassi. Location and date refer to the first performance of the translated version.
- "L'assedio di Corinto" (from "Le siège
, while it appear that Strepponi visited her family in Florence and Pavia before joining him.
Performance history.
19th century
Given by the Opéra at the Salle Le Peletier, the premiere of the opera took place on 26 November 1847, but even while writing the French version and before its premiere, Verdi had contacted his publisher, Giovanni Ricordi, regarding an Italian version. He did not find a translator while in Paris, but in 1850, the French text was translated into Italian by Calisto Bassi and performed as