Giovanni Battista Locatelli
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Giovanni Battista Locatelli (1713-c1770) was an Italian opera director and owner of a private opera company.
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 to give open public performances. The repertoire was mostly of Italian opera buffa. During the first three years the troupe presented seven operas by Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785):
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