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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ranieri de'' Calzabigi (23 December 1714 - July 1795) was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his reform operas. Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent the 1750s in Paris, where he became a close friend of Casanova. Here he explored his interest in opera, producing an edition of the works of Metastasio, the most famous librettist of opera seria. However, Calzabigi was also impressed by French trag die en musique, and eager to reform Italian opera by making it simpler and more dramatically effective. In 1761 he settled in Vienna where he met likeminded reformers: Gluck; Count Giacomo Durazzo, the theatre director; Gasparo Angiolini, the choreographer; Giovanni Maria Quaglio, the set designer; and the castrato Gaetano Guadagni. Together they worked on Gluck''s groundbreaking Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762.

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