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.
GaetanoGuadagni (16 February 1728 – 11 November 1792) was an Italian mezzo-soprano castrato singer, most famous for singing the role of Orpheus at the...
Guadagni is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernardo Guadagni (1361–1434), Gonfalonier of Justice GaetanoGuadagni (1728–1792), Italian...
Giovanni Battista Mancini (1714–1800) Giovanni Manzuoli (1720–1782) GaetanoGuadagni (1725–1792) Giusto Fernando Tenducci (c. 1736–1790) Giuseppe Millico...
leading members of their fields. The first Orfeo was the famous castrato GaetanoGuadagni. Orfeo was revived in Vienna during the following year, but then not...
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...
Rosetti, double bass player and composer (born c. 1750) October 11 – GaetanoGuadagni, castrato singer (born 1728) November 29 (or 30) – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf...
began to present operas, including Artaxerxes by Thomas Arne, with GaetanoGuadagni in a leading role. Operatic performances were illegal without a royal...
innovative choreographer Gasparo Angiolini; and the London-trained castrato GaetanoGuadagni. The first result of the new thinking was Gluck's reformist ballet...
Scipione affricano (1671) and was thereafter always known by that name GaetanoGuadagni (1728–1792), contralto castrato, known for singing the role of Orpheus...
for bass, Handel rewrote the Air in London in 1750 for the castrato GaetanoGuadagni. However, the earlier editions (Novello, Best and Prout) all give this...
Spain. Here, for the first time, he encountered the famous castrato GaetanoGuadagni, then at the height of his career. By the late 1760s Pacchierotti was...
as Giardini, playing first violin and solos, her singer colleague GaetanoGuadagni, and cellist Jean-Pierre Duport. However, the organisation of the concert...
Peattie 1997, p. 306 Howard, Patricia (2014), The Modern Castrato: GaetanoGuadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age, Oxford University Press, p. 41...
Broschi (Farinelli) Giulio Marco Bordogni Girolamo Crescentini Gaetano Donizdetti GaetanoGuadagni George Friedrich Handel Robert Schumann Gioacchino Rossini...
and the role of Orfeo was performed by the mezzo-soprano castrato GaetanoGuadagni. Gluck had decided to bring the opera to Paris in 1774, but castrato...
Handel rewrote this dramatic scene in London in 1750 for the castrato GaetanoGuadagni, after he had initially set the text as a recitative for bass. ” He...
Sinibaldo Doria Giuseppe Firrao Antonio Saverio Gentili Giovanni Antonio Guadagni Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona Agapito Mosca Domenico Riviera Marcello Passeri...
performance of the revised score, the soloists were John Beard (tenor), GaetanoGuadagni (castrato), and two boy trebles from the Chapel Royal. It is not known...
Giovanni Antonio Guadagni, OCD (14 September 1674 – 15 January 1759), religious name Giovanni Antonio di San Bernardo – was an Italian Discalced Carmelite...
perform at Parma — the original role, composed for the alto castrato GaetanoGuadagni, was transposed up for Millico's soprano voice and the whole opera...
allowing him to attract performers with first-rate voices such as GaetanoGuadagni and Gasparo Pacchiarotti. Early in 1764 Catherine the Great of Russia...
Press. ISBN 1576470814 Howard, Patricia (2014). The Modern Castrato: GaetanoGuadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age, p. 96. Oxford University Press...
endowed by nature with a pure and flexible voice, she was instructed by GaetanoGuadagni, one of the best sopranists of the day. She made her début at Parma...