About Carlo Sigismondo Capece
Lived 1652 – 1728 (aged 75). Carlo Sigismondo Capece was a librettist, writer, playwright, diplomat, poet and secretary.
Carlo Sigismondo Capece (21 June 1652 in Rome – 12 March 1728 in Polistena) was an Italian dramatist and librettist. Capece was court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, who was living in exile in Rome, and is best remembered today for the libretto of La resurrezione (HWV 47, 1708) a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel. He also provided the Libretto for operas including Domenico Scarlatti's Tolomeo e Alessandro and Ifigenia in Aulide (1714), as well as Caldara's Tito e Berenice (1714).
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Italian librettist and writer
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Carlo Sigismondo Capece was born on 21 June 1652 in Rome.
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Carlo Sigismondo Capece died on 12 March 1728 in Polistena.
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Carlo Sigismondo Capece was a librettist, writer, playwright, diplomat, poet and secretary.
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