Farinelli, the Glossary

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1. 134 relations: A Rake's Progress, Alessandro Scarlatti, Amati, Andria, Andria Cathedral, Angelica e Medoro (Porpora), Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel), Antonio Bernacchi, Apulia, Aranjuez, Barbara of Portugal, Barletta, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Bartolomeo Nazari, Basilicata, Belasco Theatre, Bologna, Broadway theatre, C (musical note), Cadenza, Caffarelli (castrato), Candide, Cantata, Carafa family, Castration, Castrato, Chamber music, Charles Burney, Charles III of Spain, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Claire van Kampen, Corrado Giaquinto, Daniel Auber, Depression (mood), Diego Velázquez, Domenico Gizzi, Domenico Scarlatti, Drury Lane, Duke of Andría, Duke of York's Theatre, Elisabeth Farnese, Eugène Scribe, Farinelli (film), Farinelli (opera), Farinelli and the King, Felice Salimbeni, Ferdinand VI, Florence, Francesco Durante, Gérard Corbiau, ... Expand index (84 more) »

2. 18th-century Italian male actors
3. 18th-century Italian male opera singers
4. Burials at Certosa cemetery
5. Knights of Calatrava
6. People from Andria
7. Pupils of Nicola Porpora

A Rake's Progress

A Rake's Progress (or The Rake's Progress) is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth.

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Alessandro Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas.

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Amati

Amati is the last name of a family of Italian violin makers who lived at Cremona from about 1538 to 1740.

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Andria

Andria (Barese: Iàndrie) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Apulia region of Southern Italy.

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Andria Cathedral

Andria Cathedral (Duomo di Andria, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Andria in Apulia, Italy, which up to 2009 was in the Province of Bari but from then onwards part of the newly formed Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.

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Angelica e Medoro (Porpora)

Angelica e Medoro is a 1720 serenata by Nicola Porpora to libretto by Metastasio, after Ludovico Ariosto.

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Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)

Antena 3 (Antena Tres) is a Spanish terrestrial television channel part of Atresmedia, of which it is the flagship station.

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Antonio Bernacchi

Antonio Bernacchi (21 June 1685 – 1 March 1756) was an Italian castrato, composer, and teacher of singing. Farinelli and Antonio Bernacchi are 18th-century Italian male actors, 18th-century Italian male opera singers, castrati and Italian male stage actors.

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Apulia

Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.

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Aranjuez

Aranjuez is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Community of Madrid.

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Barbara of Portugal

Barbara of Portugal (Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa; 4 December 1711 – 27 August 1758) was an Infanta of Portugal, and a Queen of Spain by marriage to Ferdinand VI of Spain.

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Barletta

Barletta (Salentino: Varrétte or Barlétte) is a city and former comune in Apulia, in southeastern Italy.

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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter.

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Bartolomeo Nazari

Bartolomeo Nazari (31 May 1693 – 24 August 1758) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, mainly active in Venice as a portraitist.

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Basilicata

Basilicata, also known by its ancient name Lucania, is an administrative region in Southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south.

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Belasco Theatre

The Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theater at 111 West 44th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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C (musical note)

C or Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (G, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.

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Cadenza

In music, a cadenza, (from cadenza, meaning cadence; plural, cadenze) is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist(s), usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing virtuosic display.

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Caffarelli (castrato)

Gaetano Majorano (12 April 1710 – 31 January 1783) was an Italian castrato and opera singer, who performed under the stage name Caffarelli. Farinelli and Caffarelli (castrato) are 18th-century Italian male actors, 18th-century Italian male opera singers, castrati, Italian male stage actors and Pupils of Nicola Porpora.

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Candide

Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759.

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Cantata

A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

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Carafa family

Carafa or Caraffa is the name of an old and influential Neapolitan aristocratic family of Italian nobles, clergy, and men of arts, known from the 12th century.

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Castration

Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses use of the testicles: the male gonad.

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Castrato

A castrato (Italian;: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. Farinelli and castrato are castrati.

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Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

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Charles Burney

Charles Burney (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician.

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Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788.

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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI (Karl; Carolus; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I.

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Claire van Kampen

Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance (born 3 November 1953) is an English director, composer, and playwright.

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Corrado Giaquinto

Corrado Giaquinto (8 February 1703 – 18 April 1766) was an Italian Rococo painter.

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Daniel Auber

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.

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Depression (mood)

Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity.

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Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Domenico Gizzi

Domenico Gizzi (Arpino, 1680 – Naples, 1745) was an Italian composer and singing teacher.

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer.

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Drury Lane

Drury Lane is a street on the eastern boundary of the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn.

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Duke of Andría

Duke of Andría (Duque de Andría) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1507 by Ferdinand II to "El Gran Capitán" (Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba), a general who negotiated the Surrender of Granada and led the Spanish to victory in the Italian Wars.

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Duke of York's Theatre

The Duke of York's Theatre is a West End theatre in St Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster, London.

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Elisabeth Farnese

Elisabeth Farnese (Italian: Elisabetta Farnese, Spanish: Isabel de Farnesio; 25 October 169211 July 1766) was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. She was the de facto ruler of Spain from 1714 until 1746 since she managed the affairs of state with the approval of her spouse, and is particularly known for her great influence over Spain's foreign policy.

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Eugène Scribe

Augustin Eugène Scribe (24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist.

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Farinelli (film)

Farinelli is a 1994 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Gérard Corbiau and starring Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, and Jeroen Krabbé.

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Farinelli (opera)

Farinelli is an opera in two acts, described as 'serio-comic', by John Barnett, to a libretto by his brother Charles Zachary Barnett.

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Farinelli and the King

Farinelli and the King is a 2015 play with music by Claire van Kampen.

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Felice Salimbeni

Felice Salimbeni (c. 1712 - 16 October 1755) was an Italian castrato opera singer. Farinelli and Felice Salimbeni are 18th-century Italian male opera singers and castrati.

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Ferdinand VI

Ferdinand VI (Fernando; 23 September 1713 – 10 August 1759), called the Learned (el Prudente) and the Just (el Justo), was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Francesco Durante

Francesco Durante (31 March 1684 – 30 September 1755) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School.

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Gérard Corbiau

Gérard Corbiau (born 19 September 1941) is a Belgian film director.

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Geminiano Giacomelli

Geminiano Giacomelli (sometimes Jacomelli) (28 May 1692 – 25 January 1740) was an Italian composer.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

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Gioacchino Conti

Gioacchino Conti (28 February 1714 – 25 October 1761), best known as Gizziello or Egizziello, was an Italian soprano castrato opera singer. Farinelli and Gioacchino Conti are 18th-century Italian male actors, castrati and Italian male stage actors.

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Giovanni Battista Martini

Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, O.F.M. Conv. (24 April 1706 – 3 August 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music historian of the period and a mentor to Mozart.

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Giovanni Carestini

Giovanni Carestini (13 December 1700 in Filottrano, near Ancona – 1760 in Filottrano) was an Italian castrato of the 18th century, who sang in the operas and oratorios of George Frideric Handel. Farinelli and Giovanni Carestini are 18th-century Italian male actors, castrati and Italian male stage actors.

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Giovanni Francesco Grossi

Giovanni Francesco Grossi (12 February 1653 – 29 May 1697) was one of the greatest Italian castrato singers of the baroque age. Farinelli and Giovanni Francesco Grossi are castrati.

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Giuseppe Appiani

Giuseppe Appiani (1740 or 1754–1812) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic periods.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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Haymarket, London

Haymarket is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, London.

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His Majesty's Theatre, London

His Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London.

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Iestyn Davies

Iestyn Davies (born 16 September 1979) is a British classical countertenor.

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Italian opera

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jacopo Amigoni

Jacopo Amigoni (1682 – August 1752) also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

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Johann Adolph Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Farinelli and Johann Adolph Hasse are Pupils of Nicola Porpora.

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Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque period.

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John Barnett

John Barnett (15 July 1802 – 16 April 1890) was an English composer and writer on music.

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Jusepe de Ribera

Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) was a Spanish painter and printmaker.

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Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister, from German Kapelle (chapel) and Meister (master), literally "master of the chapel choir", designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians.

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Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples (Regnum Neapolitanum; Regno di Napoli; Regno 'e Napule), was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816.

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Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo (5 August 1694 – 31 October 1744), more correctly Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, was a Baroque composer.

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Leopold Mozart

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist.

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Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louis d'or

The Louis d'or is any number of French coins first introduced by Louis XIII in 1640.

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Louis XV

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774.

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Luca Antonio Predieri

Luca Antonio Predieri (13 September 1688 – 3 January 1767) was an Italian composer and violinist.

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Luigi Marchesi

Luigi Marchesi (8 August 1754 – 14 December 1829) was an Italian castrato singer, one of the most prominent and charismatic to appear in Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century. Farinelli and Luigi Marchesi are 18th-century Italian male actors, 18th-century Italian male opera singers, castrati and Italian male stage actors.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Maratea

Maratea (Marateota) is an Italian town and comune of Basilicata, in the province of Potenza.

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Marianna Bulgarelli

Marianna Bulgarelli (c. 1684 – 26 February 1734), also known as Maria Anna Benti, was an Italian soprano of the 18th century.

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Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth)

Marriage A-la-Mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society.

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Matteuccio

Matteo Sassano, called Matteuccio (1667 - 15 October 1737), was a famous Italian castrato, also called "the nightingale of Naples" (il rosignuolo di Napoli) because of his extremely beautiful soprano voice and virtuoso singing. Farinelli and Matteuccio are castrati.

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Melisma

Melisma (μέλισμα,,; from μέλος|melos|song, melody|label.

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Messa di voce

Messa di voce (Italian: placing of the voice) is a singing technique and musical ornament most idiomatically on a single pitch while executing a crescendo and diminuendo.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Music therapy

Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program." It is also a vocation, involving a deep commitment to music and the desire to use it as a medium to help others.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Nicola Porpora

Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli.

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Obbligato

In Western classical music, obbligato (also spelled obligato) usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Opera of the Nobility

The Opera of the Nobility (or Nobility Opera) was an opera company set up and funded in 1733 by a group of nobles (under Frederick, Prince of Wales) opposed to George II of Great Britain, in order to rival the (Second) Royal Academy of Music company under Handel (backed by George II and his queen).

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Opera seria

Opera seria (plural: opere serie; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to about 1770.

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Order of Calatrava

The Order of Calatrava (Orden de Calatrava, Ordem de Calatrava) was one of the four Spanish military orders and the first military order founded in Castile, but the second to receive papal approval.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.

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Paolo Rolli

Paolo Antonio Rolli (13 June 1687 – 20 March 1765) was an Italian Rococo librettist, poet and translator.

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Papal States

The Papal States (Stato Pontificio), officially the State of the Church (Stato della Chiesa; Status Ecclesiasticus), were a conglomeration of territories on the Apennine Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope from 756 to 1870.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Parma

Parma (Pärma) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside.

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Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid

The Retiro Park (Spanish:, literally "Good Retreat Park"), also known as Buen Retiro Park or simply El Retiro, is one of the largest city parks in Madrid, Spain.

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Pasticcio

In music, a pasticcio or pastiche is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, or inauthentic.

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Philip V of Spain

Philip V (Felipe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 14 January 1724 and again from 6 September 1724 to his death in 1746.

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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. Farinelli and Pietro Metastasio are 1782 deaths.

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Pietro Torri

Pietro Torri (– 6 July 1737) was an Italian Baroque composer.

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Pio di Savoia

The Pio family, later Pio di Savoia, an ancient noble Italian family, was first mentioned by good authorities in the 14th century.

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Polifemo (opera)

Polifemo is an opera in three acts by Nicola Porpora with a libretto by Paolo Rolli.

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Ralph Kirkpatrick

Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick (June 10, 1911April 13, 1984) was an American harpsichordist and musicologist, widely known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas as well as for his performances and recordings.

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Regina Mingotti

Regina Mingotti, born in Naples 16 February 1722, died Neuburg an der Donau 1 October 1808, was an operatic soprano.

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Riccardo Broschi

Riccardo Broschi (c. 1698 – 1756) was a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. Farinelli and Riccardo Broschi are Pupils of Nicola Porpora.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is an indoor theatre forming part of the Shakespeare's Globe complex, along with the recreated Globe Theatre on Bankside in Southwark, London.

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Senesino

Francesco Bernardi (31 October 1686 – 27 November 1758), known as Senesino (or traditionally), was a celebrated Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel. Farinelli and Senesino are 18th-century Italian male actors, 18th-century Italian male opera singers, castrati and Italian male stage actors.

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Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's Globe is a realistic true-to-history reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse first built in 1599 for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays.

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Siegfried Matthus

Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Stage name

A stage name or professional name is a pseudonym used by performers, authors, and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians.

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Stradivarius

A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.

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Terlizzi

Terlizzi (Barese: Terrèzz) is an Italian small town of 26,084 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Bari in Apulia, lying to the north west of the seaport of Bari on the Adriatic Sea, in the midst of a fertile plain.

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The Cook of Castamar

The Cook of Castamar (La cocinera de Castamar) is a Spanish period drama television series adapting the novel of the same name by Fernando J. Muñez which stars Michelle Jenner and Roberto Enríquez.

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Travesti (theatre)

Travesti is a theatrical character in an opera, play, or ballet performed by a performer of the opposite sex.

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University of Bologna

The University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, abbreviated Unibo) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Viola d'amore

The viola d'amore (Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period.

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Vittoria Tesi

Vittoria Tesi Tramontini, also known as "La Fiorentina" or "La Moretta" (the Florentine or the Moorish or brunette girl) (13 February 1701 in Florence – 9 May 1775 in Vienna) was an Italian opera singer (later singing teacher) of the 18th century.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Farinelli and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are musicians awarded knighthoods.

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See also

18th-century Italian male actors

• Angiolo Vestris
• Antoine Jean Sticotti
• Antoine-François Riccoboni
• Antonio Bernacchi
• Antonio Collalto (dramatist)
• Antonio Sacco
• Caffarelli (castrato)
• Carlo Bertinazzi
• Fabio Sticotti
• Farinelli
• Filippo Cammarano
• Francesco Bartoli
• Gaetano Berenstadt
• Gaetano Casanova
• Gaetano Guadagni
• Gaspare Pacchierotti
• Gioacchino Conti
• Giovanni Andolfati
• Giovanni Camillo Canzachi
• Giovanni Carestini
• Giovanni Manzuoli
• Giuseppe Millico
• Luigi Marchesi
• Luigi Riccoboni
• Nicolò Grimaldi
• Pier Francesco Tosi
• Pietro Andolfati
• Senesino
• Valentino Urbani

18th-century Italian male opera singers

• Angelo Maria Monticelli
• Antonio Bernacchi
• Caffarelli (castrato)
• Domenico Guardasoni
• Farinelli
• Felice Salimbeni
• Francesco Antonio Pistocchi
• Francesco Borosini
• Gaetano Crivelli
• Gaetano Guadagni
• Gaetano Ricciolini
• Gaspare Pacchierotti
• Giacinto Fontana
• Giacomo David
• Giovanni Ansani
• Giovanni Battista Andreoni
• Girolamo Crescentini
• Giuseppe Aprile
• Gregorio Babbi
• Luigi Antinori
• Luigi Marchesi
• Luigi Pacini
• Panzacchi
• Senesino
• Vincenzo Calvesi
• Vincenzo Righini
• Vincenzo dal Prato

Burials at Certosa cemetery

• Amedeo Biavati
• Enrico Barberi
• Farinelli
• Flavio Bertelli
• Giosuè Carducci
• Giuseppe Albini (philologist)
• Lucio Dalla
• Luigi Acquisti
• Marco Minghetti
• Renato Dall'Ara

Knights of Calatrava

• Alfonso XII
• Alfonso XIII
• Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma
• Cristóvão de Moura, 1st Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo
• Dermot O'Mallun, 1st Baron Glean-O'Mallun
• Diego de Guevara
• Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba
• Farinelli
• Ferdinand VII
• Fernando Fernández de Velasco
• Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba
• Francisco Téllez-Girón, 10th Duke de Osuna
• Francisco de Medrano y Bazán
• Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera
• Infante Carlos María Isidro of Spain
• Isabella II
• José Joaquín Puig de la Bellacasa
• Juan Francisco Ruiz de Gaona y Portocarrero, Conde de Valdeparaíso
• List of titles and honours of Felipe VI
• Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste
• Luis Fajardo (Spanish Navy officer)
• Manuel de la Pezuela, 2nd Marquess of Viluma
• Miguel Mañara
• Miguel Primo de Rivera
• Shane O'Neill (Irish exile)
• Vicente de Gonzaga y Doria

People from Andria

• Attilio Busseti
• Conrad IV of Germany
• Corrado Ursi
• Daniele Paparusso
• Domenico Suriano
• Ettore Carafa
• Farinelli
• Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria
• Francesco Fortunato
• Francesco Salvemini
• Giorgio Pastina
• Giovanna Bruno
• Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo
• Giuseppe Abruzzese
• Giuseppe Muraglia
• Leonardo Di Cosmo
• Lino Banfi
• List of mayors of Andria
• Nicola Giorgino
• Pietro Perina
• Raffaele Calabro
• Riccardo Berardino
• Richard of Andria
• Tuccio d'Andria

Pupils of Nicola Porpora

• Caffarelli (castrato)
• Farinelli
• Johann Adolph Hasse
• Joseph Haydn
• Marianna Martines
• Riccardo Broschi

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farinelli

Also known as Carlo Broschi, Carlo Broschi Farinelli, Carlo Farinelli, Carlo Maria Broschi, Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi.

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