Faustina bordoni biography
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- Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano.
- Italian mezzo-soprano.
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Faustina Bordoni
Faustina Bordoni (Venècia, 30 de març de 1697 - íd. 4 de novembre de 1781) fou una mezzosoprano italiana, una de les primeres grans prime donne, apreciada pel seu rang vocal i representativa del drama musical del segle xviii.[1][2][3][4] Va estudiar amb Michelangelo Gasparini i va actuar per tot Europaː Viena, Venècia, Múnic, Londres, Dresden, París...
Va debutar el 1716 a Venècia amb Ariodante, de Carlo Francesco Pollarolo', causant gran sensació. El 1723, quan la seva fama a Itàlia ja era gran, va fer la seva primera aparició a Múnic amb Griselda, de Pietro Torri. El 1726 va aparèixer en lAlessandro, de Händel, a Londres. Bordoni va crear altres papers de Händel: Alcestis a Admeto, Pulcheria a Riccardo Primo, el 1727, Emira a Siroe i Elisa a Tolemeo, el 1728.[3]
Mantingué rivalitat amb altres cantants coetànies, com Regina Mingotti o Francesca Cuzzoni, un antagonisme alimentat pels fervents seguidors de cadascuna.[3]
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Faustina Bordoni (1698-1781) was a renowned and acclaimed venetian singer (mezzosoprano) who performed in the most important European theatres and courts, including in London, where she performed for Georg Friedrich Händel. She played a crucial role in London's theatrical circles: her notorious rivalry with Francesca Cuzzoni created two factions in the London opera-going society.
Bordoni’s debut in 1716 in the theatre of San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice marked the beginning of a brilliant career. In July 1723, Faustina performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in the Flavio Anicio Olibrio by the composer Francesco Gasperini with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati (Van der Linden 2017, p. 24). Faustina was so successful and admired that two medals were made in her honour, cast by Giuseppe Broccetti, with the same portrait on the obverse and two distinct on the reverses. The reverse of the V&A cast shows a female figure, identified by some as the personification of Music (Avery 2000, p. 4) and by others as an allegory of Fame (Johnson
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Faustina Bordoni
Italian opera singer (1697–1781)
Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano.
In Hamburg, Germany, the Johann Adolph Hasse Museum is dedicated to her husband and partly to Bordoni.[1]
Early career
She was born in Venice and brought up under the protection of the aristocratic brother composers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello. Her singing teacher was another composer, Michelangelo Gasparini. For many years in the service of the Elector Palatine, she made her operatic debut at Venice in 1716 in Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's Ariodante, singing in her home city until 1725 in operas by Albinoni, the Gasparini brothers, Giacomelli, Leonardo Leo, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, the Pollarolos, father and son, and Leonardo Vinci, amongst others. In 1718 and 1719 in Venice she sang alongside Francesca Cuzzoni, later to become her great rival. During this period she also performed several times at Reggio nell'Emilia, Naples and Parma, and at least once in Milan, Modena and Florence. After her German début in 1723,
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