Giovanni Manzuoli News
Italian singer
- soprano
- Italy
- actor, opera singer
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2023-11-17 19:46:00
[…] Ariosto’s time at the Este court in Ferrara, Ruggiero was held to show neither composer nor librettist at his best. Now gout-ridden and in his eighth decade, Maria Theresa’s old music-master and longstanding favourite composer was eclipsed by the success the following day of a second commissioned opera, from the sixteen-year-old Mozart and Giuseppe Parini: Ascanio in Alba. The two productions had three singers in common: the soprano Antonia Maria Girelli Aguilar, the castrato Giovanni Manzuoli, and the tenor Giuseppe Tibaldi. All were past the heights of their careers, yet seem to have fared better in Mozart than in Hasse. Set designs for both were provided by a team of three brothers: Bernardino, Fabrizio, and Giovanni Antonio Galliari. Hasse’s alleged remark, ‘Questo ragazzo ci farà dimenticar tutti’ (‘This boy will render us all forgotten’), rings with poetic if not incontrovertibly historical truth. A new production of Ascanio will open next month […]
2018-06-07 06:33:33
A visit to 1760s London: Ian Page & The Mozartists' Mozart in London
[…] Siria (written for London in 1765), both of which startle for the Mozartian cast to their vocal lines and their orchestration. There are also a further two arias by J.C. Bach from earlier operas which were re-used in pasticcios, Ezio and Berenice, performed during the 1764/65 season. The pasticcios performed at the King's Theatre also give up an aria by the Venetian composer Giovanni Pescetti, almost certainly chosen by the leading man, the castrato Giovanni Manzuoli, becuase it suited his voice, and another by the Neapolitan composer Davide Perez.J.C. Bach wrote instrumental music too, and here we have the sixth of his harpsichord concertos written for King George III and Queen Charlotte. Intended for private performance, these use just harpsichord and minimum strings. No. 6 is charmingly imaginative with the extra delight of a finale based on variations on God Save The King. It might not be canonic, but I […]
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