Pucitta, Vincenzo

PUCITTA, Vincenzo, was born at Rome, 1778, and brought up at the Pietà, at Naples, under Fenaroli and Sala. He wrote his first opera for Sinigaglia, near Ancona, and from that time till his death composed for the stage diligently. ‘I due Prigionieri’ (Rome 1801) was the first to make him widely known. He was, however, often away from Italy, first at Lisbon, where he brought out ‘L'Andromacca,’ and then in London, where he became for a time...