page_title: Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca
section_title: Libretti
hierarchical_section_title: Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca / Libretti
caption_attribution_description: English: First page for the libretto for La Reggia d'Imenèo, performed at the Opernhaus am Zwinger, Dresden, 21 October 1787. It was published the same year by the Kurfürstliche Hofdruckerey (Royal Press of Saxony)
context_page_description: Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca was an Italian poet and librettist. A student and protégé of Metastasio, he was primarily active in the court theaters of Dresden and Vienna. His most successful work was the libretto for the opera Solimano, first set by Johann Adolph Hasse in 1753 and subsequently set by 18 other composers in the course of the next 50 years.
context_section_description: Armida placata (opera seria in two acts) first set by Giovanni Battista Mele, premiered Buen Retiro Palace, Madrid, 12 April 1750
  Giove fulminatore dei giganti (opera/cantata) set by Maria Antonia of Bavaria, 1752 (lost)
  Solimano (opera seria in three acts) first set by Johann Adolph Hasse, premiered Opernhaus am Zwinger, Dresden, 5 February 1753
  Artemisia (opera in three acts) first set by Johann Adolph Hasse, premiered Opernhaus am Zwinger, Dresden, 6 February 1754
  Tetide (serenata in two parts) first set by Christoph Willibald Gluck, premiered Hofburg Palace, Vienna for the wedding of Princess Isabella of Parma and Joseph, Archduke of Austria, 10 October 1760
  Armida (1° version, azione teatrale in one act) co-written with Giacomo Durazzo and based on Quinault's Armide, first set by Tommaso Traetta, premiered Burgtheater. Vienna, 3 January 1761
  Prometeo assoluto (serenata), first set by Georg Christoph Wagenseil, premiered Burgtheater, Vienna to celebrate the birth of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, 24 March 1762
  Arianna (festa teatrale in one act), set to pre-existing arias by Christoph Willibald Gluck, premiered Favorita Palace, Laxenburg, 27 May 1762
  Acide e Galatea (festa teatrale in one act) and Vivan gl'illustri sposi (cantata), both set by Joseph Haydn, premiered Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt for the wedding of Prince Anton Esterházy, 11 January 1763
  Armida (2° version, opera in three acts) co-written with Giacomo Dubrazzo and based on Quinault's Armide, first set by Tommaso Traetta, premiered Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 30 May 1763
  Il ritorno del figliuol prodigo (azione sacra), set by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, premiered Royal Chapel, Dresden, 10 April 1784
  Mosè riconosciuto figura di Gesù Cristo salvator nostro (oratorio), set by Joseph Schuster, premiered Royal Chapel, Dresden, 15 April 1786
  La reggia d'Imeneo (festa teatrale in one act), set by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, premiered  Opernhaus am Zwinger, Dresden for the wedding of Anton of Saxony, 21 October 1787
caption: First page of La reggia d'Imeneo, Migliavacca's last known libretto
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