Rinaldo di Capua

Rinaldo di (da) Capua (Capua, c. 1705 – probably Rome, c. 1780) was an Italian composer. Little is known of him with any certainty, including his name, although he was known to Charles Burney. He may have been the father of composer Marcello Bernardini. Works Operas * Ciro riconosciuto (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1737, Rome) * Untitled comic opera (1737, Rome) * La commedia in commedia (dramma giocoso, libretto by Francesco Vanneschi, after C. A. Pelli, 1738, Rome) * Vologeso, re de’ Parti (dramma per musica, libretto by Guido Eustachio Luccarelli, after Lucio Vero of Apostolo Zeno, 1739, Rome) * Farnace (dramma per musica, libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini, 1739, Venice) * La libertà nociva (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Gualtiero Barlocci, 1740, Rome) * Catone in Utica (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1740, Lisbon) * Didone abbandonata (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon) * Ipermestra (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon) * Le nozze di Don Trifone (intermezzo, libretto by N. G. Neri, 1743, Rome) * Turno Heredonio Aricino (dramma per musica, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia, 1743,