Covered Up - Let Me Go (Originally Performed by Hailee Steinfeld with Alesso, Flori

ASTARITTA (Astaritta, Astarita) Gennaro (1745, Naples - 1803) - Italian composer. Perhaps he was a student of N. Piccinni. He led the chapel in Naples, where in 1765 there was a post. his first opera Algerian Corsair (Il corsaro algerino). Since 1780 the operas of A. gained popularity, they went in Vienna, Dresden, Petersburg (for the first time in 1781). In 1784-86 A. - Director of Ital. operas in Moscow, in 1786-89 - in St. Petersburg, there was a post in 1789 here. his opera "Pretended Crazy" (to the text by Y. B. Knyazhnin). In 1795-1803 A. again led Ital. opera in Petersburg; during this period he wrote many works, most of which remained unknown. The author of more than 40 opera buffs and opera series (preserved - “Armida”, 1777, begun by T. Traetta; “Heroes of the Eliza Camp”, 1779, etc. ), ballets. He also wrote motets, cantatas, divertissements.