Claudio Guastalla
Italian librettist
Intro | Italian librettist | |
Places | Italy | |
was | Writer Librettist Playwright | |
Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature Music | |
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Birth | 7 November 1880, Rome, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy | |
Death | 1948 (aged 67 years) | |
Star sign | Scorpio |
Claudio Guastalla was an Italian opera librettist.
Guastalla was born in Rome on 7 November 1880 and died probably in the same city in 1948.
Especially important was his collaboration with the composer Ottorino Respighi.
Guastalla wrote fifteen libretti. Among them:
Guastalla was also the author of the subject of Respighi's ballet Belkis, regina di Saba (1932) and collaborated with Respighi for a revision (1934) of the libretto of L'Orfeo of Claudio Monteverdi.