Marcello Bernardini

Marcello Bernardini (or Marcello da Capua; near Capua, 1730 or 1740 – around 1799) was an Italian composer and librettist. Little is known of him, save that he wrote 37 operas in his career. His father was most likely the composer Rinaldo di Capua. Operas * La schiava astuta (intermezzo, 1765, Rome) * La pescatrice (farsetta, 1768, Rome) * Il Don Chisciotte della Mancia (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, 1769, Turin) * Il cavaliere errante (farsetta, libretto by Marcello Bernardini, 1770, Rome) * La donna di spirito (farsetta, libretto by Marcello Bernardini, after that for La vedova scaltra by Carlo Goldoni, 1770, Rome) * La molinara astuta (intermezzo, 1770, Rome) * Amore in musica (opera buffa, 1773, Rome) * La contessina (dramma giocoso, libretto by Marco Coltellini, after Carlo Goldoni, 1773, Rome) * La bella forestiera ossia La viaggiatrice fortunata (farsetta, 1776, Rome) * La finta sposa olandese (farsetta, 1777, Rome) * L’isola incantata (intermezzo, 1778, Rome) * L’ambizione delusa (intermezzo, 1779, Rome) * Il bassà generoso (intermezzo, 1780, Rome) * Il vecchio ringiovanito (intermezzo, 1781, Rome) * Le vendette giocose ossia Il conte pasticcio (int