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Gaetano Guadagni (16 February 1728 – 11 November 1792) was an Italian mezzo-soprano castrato singer, most famous for singing the role of Orpheus at the premiere of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762.

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Gaetano Guadagni

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Gaetano Guadagni (16 February 1728 – 11 November 1792) was an Italian mezzo-soprano castrato singer, most famous for singing the role of Orpheus at the...

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Guadagni

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Guadagni is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernardo Guadagni (1361–1434), Gonfalonier of Justice Gaetano Guadagni (1728–1792), Italian...

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Castrato

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Giovanni Battista Mancini (1714–1800) Giovanni Manzuoli (1720–1782) Gaetano Guadagni (1725–1792) Giusto Fernando Tenducci (c. 1736–1790) Giuseppe Millico...

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Orfeo ed Euridice

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leading members of their fields. The first Orfeo was the famous castrato Gaetano Guadagni. Orfeo was revived in Vienna during the following year, but then not...

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Gaetano

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opera composer Gaetano Gandolfi (1734–1802), Bolognese painter Gaetano Greco (circa 1657–1728), Italian Baroque composer Gaetano Guadagni (1729–1792), Italian...

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Palazzo Guadagni Strozzi Sacrati

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The Palazzo Guadagni Strozzi Sacrati is a palace located between via dell’Oriuolo, via de’ Servi, and via Bufalini in central Florence, region of Tuscany...

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1792 in music

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Rosetti, double bass player and composer (born c. 1750) October 11 – Gaetano Guadagni, castrato singer (born 1728) November 29 (or 30) – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf...

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Teresa Cornelys

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began to present operas, including Artaxerxes by Thomas Arne, with Gaetano Guadagni in a leading role. Operatic performances were illegal without a royal...

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

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innovative choreographer Gasparo Angiolini; and the London-trained castrato Gaetano Guadagni. The first result of the new thinking was Gluck's reformist ballet...

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List of people from Italy

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Scipione affricano (1671) and was thereafter always known by that name Gaetano Guadagni (1728–1792), contralto castrato, known for singing the role of Orpheus...

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Messiah Part II

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for bass, Handel rewrote the Air in London in 1750 for the castrato Gaetano Guadagni. However, the earlier editions (Novello, Best and Prout) all give this...

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Gaspare Pacchierotti

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Spain. Here, for the first time, he encountered the famous castrato Gaetano Guadagni, then at the height of his career. By the late 1760s Pacchierotti was...

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Giulia Frasi

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as Giardini, playing first violin and solos, her singer colleague Gaetano Guadagni, and cellist Jean-Pierre Duport. However, the organisation of the concert...

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Giulio Cesare

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Peattie 1997, p. 306 Howard, Patricia (2014), The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age, Oxford University Press, p. 41...

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A Wicked Voice

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Broschi (Farinelli) Giulio Marco Bordogni Girolamo Crescentini Gaetano Donizdetti Gaetano Guadagni George Friedrich Handel Robert Schumann Gioacchino Rossini...

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Marie Sasse

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and the role of Orfeo was performed by the mezzo-soprano castrato Gaetano Guadagni. Gluck had decided to bring the opera to Paris in 1774, but castrato...

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Messiah Part I

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Handel rewrote this dramatic scene in London in 1750 for the castrato Gaetano Guadagni, after he had initially set the text as a recitative for bass. ” He...

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Cardinals created by Clement XII

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Sinibaldo Doria Giuseppe Firrao Antonio Saverio Gentili Giovanni Antonio Guadagni Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona Agapito Mosca Domenico Riviera Marcello Passeri...

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Foundling Hospital Anthem

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performance of the revised score, the soloists were John Beard (tenor), Gaetano Guadagni (castrato), and two boy trebles from the Chapel Royal. It is not known...

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Giovanni Antonio Guadagni

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Giovanni Antonio Guadagni, OCD (14 September 1674 – 15 January 1759), religious name Giovanni Antonio di San Bernardo – was an Italian Discalced Carmelite...

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Giuseppe Millico

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perform at Parma — the original role, composed for the alto castrato Gaetano Guadagni, was transposed up for Millico's soprano voice and the whole opera...

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Baldassare Galuppi

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allowing him to attract performers with first-rate voices such as Gaetano Guadagni and Gasparo Pacchiarotti. Early in 1764 Catherine the Great of Russia...

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Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca

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Press. ISBN 1576470814 Howard, Patricia (2014). The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age, p. 96. Oxford University Press...

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Anna Morichelli Bosello

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endowed by nature with a pure and flexible voice, she was instructed by Gaetano Guadagni, one of the best sopranists of the day. She made her début at Parma...

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