Giovanni Maria Quaglio the Elder

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Giovanni Maria Quaglio (c. 1700-1765) was an Austrian stage designer of Italian extraction. He worked mainly in Vienna, where he designed the original production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762. He studied in Rome and Milan.

References

  • James Anderson, The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta.
  • [http://www.bmlo.lmu.de/Q/GND=131730525 BMLO] entry (German)

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Category:1700s births

Category:1765 deaths

Category:18th-century Austrian artists

Category:Austrian scenic designers

Category:Opera designers

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