This research project aims to reveal the importance and originality of baroque poet Pietro Pariati (1665–1733) by making the complete edition of his sacred and profane texts for music accessible to the scientific community and to a wide public audience. A critical edition of Pariati’s librettos, accompanied by an historical in-depth introduction and comments documenting the genesis and fortunes of his oeuvre, will shed new light on this poet, whose texts were set to music by the most important composers of his time, such as Giovanni Bononcini, Tomaso Albinoni, Antonio Caldara and Johann Joseph Fux.
Pietro Pariati is also a key literary figure of the Viennese scene, whose texts made a central contribution to the representation of the Habsburgs in music. After working as a dramatic poet for the Milanese and Venetian stages from 1700, he was appointed court poet under Emperor Charles VI in 1714 and remained at the imperial court of Vienna until his death.
The publication will be divided into three parts, grouped by genre (I: Drammi seri; Intermezzi e Tragicommedie; II: Feste teatrali e Serenate; III: Oratorii e componimenti sacri), and arranged within each genre in chronological order. Each libretto will be accompanied by an extensive apparatus documenting all the revised versions up to 1800, including a list of variants, so as to offer a glimpse of the success of Pariati’s texts.
A critical edition of Pariati’s sacred and profane librettos will be of considerable interest to musicologists as well as Italianists and historians, since it can provide a basis for further research in diverse fields including literature, music, historical and cultural studies. It is important to note that Pariati’s texts were written in the crucial period of the first two decades of the 18th century, which saw the emergence of stylistic and historical changes in libretto composition in both the secular and sacred spheres. Research on this eminent figure of music poetry can also answer important questions about cultural transfer, court ceremonial, and the political function of music.
De Feo, Adriana (16.12.2023) Un’opera per Filippo V di Spagna: “Il Giustino” di Giulio Convò e Domenico Scarlatti (Napoli 1703). Vortrag bei: Musica e potere in Italia meridionale (XVII-XVIII secolo), 14-16 dezember 2023 (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Società Italiana di Musicologia), Palermo/ITALY.
De Feo, Adriana (08.11.2023) Die Wiener Libretti Apostolo Zenos in der Vertonung durch Antonio Caldara (1718-1729). Vortrag bei: Antonio Caldara from Venice to Vienna, 7-11 November 2023 (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), Wien/AUSTRIA.
De Feo, Adriana (28.10.2023) L’apprendistato di un librettista: il caso del “Sidonio” di Pietro Pariati (Venezia 1706). Vortrag bei: XXX Convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Musicologia, 27-29 Oktober 2023 (Conservatorio di Musica “Vincenzo Bellini”), Catania/ITALY.
De Feo, Adriana (16.09.2023) “Le nozze di Aurora” (Vienna 1722), “La pubblica felicità” e “Il trionfo d’amore” (Monaco 1722): sui codici celebrativi nei libretti encomiastici di Pietro Pariati. Vortrag bei: Entità naturali e sovrannaturali nell’opera italiana, 16-17 September 2023 (Czech Academy of Sciences, National heritage Institute State castle Český Krumlov), Český Krumlov/CZECH REPUBLIC.
De Feo, Adriana (11.05.2023) The Viennese Libretti by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati and the Representation of Power. Vortrag bei: Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era, 10-12 Mai 2023 (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Societat Catalana de Musicologia,Institut d’Estudis Catalans), Barcelona/SPAIN.
De Feo, Adriana (23.09.2022) “Il castigatissimo Imperial Teatro”: Apostolo Zeno’s drammi for the Habsburg court set to music by Antonio Caldara (1718–1729). Vortrag bei: Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) and the Performance of Power, 23-24 September 2022 (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), Sydney/AUSTRALIA.
De Feo, Adriana (25.06.2022) The spectacular and the ‘foreignness’ in Apostolo Zeno’s Viennese libretti. Vortrag bei: 4th Transnational Opera Studies Conference, 23-25 Juni 2022 (Universität Bayreuth), Bayreuth/GERMANY.
De Feo, Adriana (28.05.2022) “Scipione nelle Spagne” e la rappresentazione della sovranità nei drammi per musica di Apostolo Zeno e Pietro Pariati per la corte di Barcellona (1708-1710). Vortrag bei: “Tu, degli austriaci eroi germe sublime”. Convegno internazionale di Studi in occasione della prima esecuzione in tempi moderni di Scipione nelle Spagne, dramma per musica di Apostolo Zeno musicato da Antonio Caldara (1722),27-29 Mai 2022 (Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, Fondazione Levi, Teatro La Fenice), Venedig/ITALY.
De Feo, Adriana (14.11.2021) ‘Stranieri’ e ‘barbari’: la rappresentazione dell’‘altro’ nel libretto di primo Settecento. Vortrag bei: XXV Colloquio di Musicologia del Saggiatore musicale, 12-14 November 2021 (Università di Bologna), Ravenna/ITALY.
De Feo, Adriana (16.10.2021) “Engelberta” di Apostolo Zeno e Pietro Pariati: la genesi e la fortuna dell’opera. Vortrag bei: “Ombre romite, taciti orrori.” Convegno internazionale di Studi in occasione della prima esecuzione in tempi moderni di Engelberta, dramma per musica di Apostolo Zeno e Pietro Pariati (1708), 15-17 Oktober 2021 (Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, Fondazione Levi, Teatro La Fenice), Venedig/ITALY.
De Feo, Adriana (22.06.2019) Apostolo Zeno dal teatro impresariale alla corte viennese. Vortrag bei: I libretti italiani a Vienna tra Sei e Settecento – Italian libretti in Vienna during the 17 th and 18th centuries. International Conference, 21-23 Juni 2019 (Universität Wien-Institut für Romanistik), Wien/AUSTRIA.
De Feo, Adriana (13.07.2018) Zeno Counter-Reformed: the ‘revisionist’ versions of Apostolo Zeno’s early librettos. Vortrag bei: 18th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, 10-15 Juli 2018 (Musicology and Cultural Heritage Department of Pavia University in Cremona), Cremona/ITALY.
De Feo, Adriana (21.11.2015) The roles for Giuseppe Maria Boschi in Handel’s and Antonio Lotti’s operas. Vortrag bei: Handel and his Eighteenth- Century Performers, 21-23 November 2015 (The Handel Institute, The Open University London), London/UNITED KINGDOM.
De Feo, Adriana (27.06.2015) Le Serenate di Domenico Scarlatti per la corte portoghese. Vortrag bei: The Serenata and the Festa Teatrale in 18th-Century Europe, 26-28 Juni 2015 (Centro di Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal, Società italiana di Musicologia, Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini), Queluz/PORTUGAL.
De Feo, Adriana (09.06.2015) Selbstdarstellung und höfische Repräsentation: dramatische Sujets zur Glorifizierung der Habsburgerdynastie in der barocken Librettistik. Vortrag bei: Die Repräsentation der Habsburg-Lothringischen Dynastie in Musik, visuellen Medien und Architektur, ca. 1618–1918, 8-10 Juni 2015 (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Finanzierung
Einzelprojekt P 36223