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Castrati --- Farinelli, --- Castrats --- Opéras --- Opera --- Operas --- Opéra --- Opéras --- Performances --- Biography. --- Interprétation --- Biographies --- Singers --- Biography --- 78.77.3 Farinelli --- Castrati - Italy - Biography --- Farinelli, - 1705-1782
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This is the first full-length biography of one of the most outstanding singers of the eighteenth century. Gaetano Guadagni is widely known for his creation of the role of Orpheus in Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'; he was also a leading singer in Handel's oratorios, and worked with other progressive composers such as Traetta, Jommelli and Bertoni. His career coincided with a movement to reform heroic opera, with the intention of freeing dramatic music from restrictive conventions, and bringing it into harmony with the more expressive aims of the age of sensibility.
Castrati --- Evirati --- Eunuchs --- Singers --- Guadagni, Gaetano, --- Guadagni, Cosimo Gaetano, --- Castraten --- Biografie
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Castrati --- Vocal music --- History and criticism --- France --- Castrati - France --- Vocal music - France - 17th century - History and criticism --- Vocal music - France - 18th century - History and criticism --- History of France --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Versailles
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Music --- Theatrical science --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- Castraten --- Castrati --- Castrats --- Evirati --- Eunuchs --- Singers --- 78.77.3
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Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), the celebrated Italian castrato, is best known for his performance in Mozart's Lucio Silla in 1772, with which Mozart was so pleased that he composed for the singer the famous motet Exsultate Jubilate. In 1774, Rauzzini moved to London where he performed three seasons of serious operas at the King's Theatre. From 1777 until his death in 1810, he was the director of the concert series in Bath, a series that matched the prestige of any that were given in London. In addition, he composed prolifically, writing music for eleven operas. This book is a study of Rauzzini's remarkable yet often overlooked career in Britain. Paul Rice chronicles Rauzzini's performances at the King's Theatre and examines his leadership of the Bath subscription concerts from 1780-1810, recovering much of the repertory. Rice shows in detail how Rauzzini responded musically to the social and political conditions of his adopted country, and analyzes the castrato's reception, as well as compositional choices, shedding new light on changing musical tastes in late eighteenth-century Britain. Paul F. Rice is professor of musicology at the School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Castrati --- Music --- Castrats --- Musique --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Biographies --- Histoire et critique --- Rauzzini, Venanzio, --- Great Britain --- 18th century --- History and criticism --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Evirati --- Eunuchs --- Singers --- Rauzzini, V. --- Bath subscription concerts. --- Britain. --- King's Theatre. --- Memorial University of Newfoundland. --- Mozart. --- Paul F. Rice. --- Venanzio Rauzzini. --- castrato soprano. --- composer. --- cultural leader. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- music. --- social and political conditions.
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