Francesco Sbarra
Francesco Sbarra was an Italian poet and librettist. Born in Lucca, he spent most of his career in Austria where he wrote the librettos for entertainments and operas at the courts of Archduke Ferdinand Charles in Innsbruck and Emperor Leopold I in Vienna.Librettos
- Alessandro vincitor di se stesso, set by Antonio Cesti, Venice 1651
- Venere cacciatrice, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck 1659
- La magnanimità d'Alessandro, set by Antonio Cesti, Innsbruck, 1662
- Nettuno e Flora festeggianti, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1666
- Le Lachrime di San Pietro, set by Giovanni Felice Sances. Vienna. 1666
- Le disgrazie d'Amore, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
- La Germania esultante , set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1667
- Il pomo d'oro, set by Antonio Cesti, Vienna, 1668