Almerindo Spadetta
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Almerindo Spadetta | |
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| Born | c. 1822 |
| Died | April 1894 San Giovanni a Teduccio, Italy |
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Almerindo Spadetta (c. 1822—April 1894) was a prolific opera librettist active in Naples. He worked as a stage manager at the Teatro San Carlo, Teatro Nuovo, and Teatro del Fondo in Naples for over 40 years and wrote numerous libretti (mostly in the opera buffa genre) for composers associated with those theatres. His most enduring work was the libretto for Nicola De Giosa's Don Checco, one of the last great successes in the history of Neapolitan opera buffa.[1][2]
Spadetta was a lawyer by training and apparently spent some of his career in Malta, but little else has been written about his life.[3][4] According to his obituary in the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano, he spent his last years in San Giovanni a Teduccio, a small town in the suburbs of Naples. He died there in 1894, long-forgotten and in dire poverty.[2]
