{{short description|Italian librettist (1760-1845)}} {{expand Italian|topic=bio|date=June 2017}} '''Giuseppe Maria Foppa''' (Venice, 12 July 1760 – Venice, 1 March 1845) was an Italian librettist. He wrote around 150 libretti, mainly for comic operas, as well as Latin oratorio texts and his memoirs.<ref>Richard Osborne ''Rossini'' 2007 0199724407 p.368 "Foppa, Giuseppe (1760–1845), librettist. An archivist and government official, he wrote some 150 opera libretti. A master of the one-act farsa popular in Venice from the early 1790s, he drew his material from French and Neapolitan sources,"</ref> He composed work for theatres in Milan, Genoa, Pistoia, Padua, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, and Florence.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
==Librettos== *''Romeo and Juliet'', for Nicola Antonio Zingarelli *''L'inganno felice'', ''La scala di seta'', ''Il signor Bruschino'' and ''Sigismondo'' (1814) for Gioachino Rossini *''Gli artigiani'', 1795 for Pasquale Anfossi *''L'intrigo della lettera'' 1797, and several oratorios for Simone Mayr *''Lo spazzacamino principe'' 1794, and ''Le donne cambiate'' 1797 for Marcos António Portugal *''Teresa e Claudio'', 1801 for Giuseppe Farinelli *''Le metamorfosi di Pasquale'', 1802 for Gaspare Spontini *''Un buco nella porta'', 1804 for Francesco Gardi
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