Giovanni Battista Locatelli
Giovanni Battista Locatelli was born on January 7, 1713. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Giovanni Battista Locatelli
Giovanni Battista Locatelli (7 January 1713 – 14 March 1785) was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company. Locatelli was the court poet at Bonn in 1741. From 1748 to 1756, he presented opera productions in Prague, including works by Gluck to libretti by Metastasio. He presented other operas in Dresden as well in the 1750s. He went bankrupt in 1757 and left for Russia to relaunch his career as an impresario. In 1757, he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week, they were allowed…