Barbaja, Domenico

BARBAJA, Domenico, born 1778 at Milan, of poor parentage; was successively waiter at a coffee-house on the Piazza, manager of an English riding-circus, lessee of the Cucagna playhouse at Naples, and director of the San Carlo theatre. While at Naples he made the acquaintance of Count Gallenberg, the Austrian ambassador, followed him to Vienna in 1821, and obtained the direction of both the ‘Kärnthner-thor’ theatre and that ‘auf der Wien,’ which he held till 1828. He was the first...