Stefano Pavesi
Stefano Pavesi was an Italian composer. He is primarily known as a prolific opera composer; his breakthrough opera was Fingallo e Comala, and his acknowledged opera masterpiece is Ser Marcantonio. He also served as the maestro di cappella of Crema Cathedral from 1814 to 1818, and alone from 1818 until his death at the age of 71.
His first music studies were in Crema, followed by studies in Naples. While in Naples, Pavesi actively joined the Parthenopean Republic. After its suppression, Pavesi was denounced, imprisoned, and deported to France. In France he played the serpent in Napoleon's army band and remained in Italy after the Battle of Marengo. He returned to Crema in 1814 after the Austrian occupation of northern Italy after the War of the Sixth Coalition. He suffered a stroke in 1831 after the failure of his opera Fenella.
Operas
Among his 66 operas are:- La pace
- L'avvertimento ai gelosi
- L'amante anonimo
- I castelli in aria
- La forza dei simpatici
- Andromaca
- La fiera di Brindisi
- Fingallo e Comala
- Il trionfo di Emilia
- Amare, e non voler essere amante ossia L'abitore del bosco
- L'incognito ossia L'abitatore del bosco
- I cherusci
- Gli antichi Cherusci
- Sapersi scegliere un degno sposo ossia Amor vero, e amor interessato
- Il maldicente ossia La bottega del caffè
- Il servo padrone ossia L'amor perfetto
- La festa della rosa
- Il trionfo delle belle
- Odoardo e Cristina
- Ser Marcantonio Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 1810
- Il trionfo dell'amore ossia Irene e Filandro
- Nitteti
- Agatina o La virtù premiata
- La gioventù di Giulio Cesare, libretto by Felice Romani
- Arminio ossia L'eroe germano
- Antigona e Lauso
- I cavalieri del Nodo
- Il solitario ed Elodia
- La donna bianca d'Avenello
- Fenella ossia La muta di Portici
- ''Ardano e Artula''