正歌剧脚本大师梅塔斯塔齐奥

Opera seria librettist Pietro Metastasio

18世纪,意大利歌剧独领风骚,红遍欧洲。当时意大利有位著名诗人,同时也是一位著名的歌剧脚本作家,名叫皮埃特罗·梅塔斯塔齐奥（Pietro Metastasio,1698～1782）,他写过很多歌剧脚本,约有30多部,几乎被当时欧洲的所有歌剧作曲家都采用过,有的甚至被反复采用,被数百次地配乐。原因是他的作品非常鲜明地体现出了当时人们所时兴的典雅情趣,这一点不但对当时的音乐产生了影响,而且与当时音乐的追求具有吻合之处,由此,通过梅塔斯塔齐奥,

Pietro Metastasio wrote about 30 Italian opera libretti,all of which were scored by the best opera composers in 18th-century Europe. Some of his librettos were even used repeatedly.Metastasio's work clearly reflected the fashionable and elegant taste of the public,which had an impact on the development of the genre opera seria.