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    the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera. Farinelli has been described as having had soprano vocal range and as having...
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    Farinelli is an opera in two acts, described as 'serio-comic', by John Barnett, to a libretto by his brother Charles Zachary Barnett. Produced in 1839...
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  • on the life and career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, considered the greatest castrato singer of all time;...
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    Castrati such as Farinelli and Senesino, as well as female sopranos such as Faustina Bordoni, became in great demand throughout Europe as opera seria ruled...
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  • Farinelli and the King is a 2015 play with music by Claire van Kampen. The play involves King Philip V of Spain who is troubled with insomnia. It premiered...
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  • Farinelli Fierro Piergiorgio Farinelli Roberta Farinelli Lucy Farinelli This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Farinelli....
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  • Giuseppe Farinelli (7 May 1769 – 12 December 1836) was an Italian composer active at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century...
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    1722 was guided by Nicola Porpora. Though Farinelli did not sing for Handel, his main rival, Senesino, did. Opera seria acquired definitive form early during...
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  • di Porpora e Veracini. Un pasticcio per Farinelli". In Luigi Verde (ed.). Mito, storia e sogno di Farinelli. Lucca: LIM. ISBN 9788855431026. Sources...
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  • Calliroe is a melodramma eroico or opera in 2 acts and 23 scenes by composer Giuseppe Farinelli. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Gaetano...
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    and featured the famed castrato singers Farinelli and Senesino. Polifemo was Porpora's second-most popular opera, after his Arianna in Nasso. The beginning...
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    Broschi "Farinelli", Nicolò Grimaldi "Nicolini", Francesco Bernardi "Senesino" and Antonio Maria Bernacchi stood out. The most famous was Farinelli, who performed...
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    No. 9, directed by the maestro. Parts of the 1994 biopic Farinelli were filmed in the Opera House. The theatre was the site of the annual Bayreuther Osterfestival...
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  • 1986. He is best known for portraying the 18th-century Italian castrato opera singer Farinelli in the movie of the same name. Stefano Dionisi IMDB v t e...
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    Nicola Porpora (category Italian opera composers)
    the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse...
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    Broschi) is an opéra comique by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, loosely based on an incident from the life of the singer Farinelli. It premiered...
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    Caffarelli (castrato) (category 18th-century Italian male opera singers)
    January 1783) was an Italian castrato and opera singer, who performed under the stage name Caffarelli. Like Farinelli, Caffarelli was a student of Nicola Porpora...
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  • de Lavapiés John Barnett (1802–1890): Mountain Sylph, Fair Rosamond, Farinelli Gerald Barry (1952– ): The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Importance...
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  • Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Farinelli and the King is van Kampen's historical play about the relationship between Farinelli, the castrato, and the Spanish...
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    opera Artaserse played to packed houses and Farinelli became the toast of the town. Later in the season they even revived one of Handel's own operas Ottone...
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    George Frideric Handel (category English opera composers)
    compete with the Opera of the Nobility, who engaged musicians such as Johann Adolph Hasse, Nicolo Porpora and the famous castrato Farinelli. The strong support...
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    Riccardo Broschi (category Italian opera composers)
    a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. Broschi was born in Apulia, Kingdom of Naples, the...
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    Angelica e Medoro (Porpora) (category Operas)
    marked the debut of the castrato Farinelli. Orlando: Robert Expert, Olga Pitarch, Betsabee Haas, Real Compania Opera de Camara, Juan Bautista Otero K617...
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    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (category Italian opera composers)
    his operas) can be attributed to Pergolesi. Pergolesi's Salve Regina is a highlighted performance in the movie Farinelli (1994), in which Farinelli also...
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  • Idaspe (category 1730 operas)
    Idaspe is an opera by baroque composer Riccardo Broschi. It is notable for starring the composer’s brother, Farinelli, in the role of Dario. The famous...
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    Castrato (category Opera history)
    (the aria "Navigante che non spera" in Leonardo Vinci's opera Il Medo, written for Farinelli, requires notes down to C3, 131 Hz). Similar low-voiced singing...
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  • Il Cid della Spagna (category Operas by Giuseppe Farinelli)
    Il Cid della Spagna is a dramma per musica or opera in 2 acts by composer Giuseppe Farinelli. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Antonio Simeone...
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    Coloratura (category Italian opera terminology)
    from Antonio Vivaldi's opera Griselda. Naqui All'Affanno - Non Piu Mesta a coloratura contralto rondo, from Rossini's opera La Cenerentola. Bel canto...
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    Marino Faliero Farinelli, Italian castrato singer Daniel Auber: La part du diable (or Carlo Broschi) (as Carlo Broschi) John Barnett: Farinelli Philo Farnsworth...
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    2014. He received Best Actor nominations for Richard III in 2014 and Farinelli and the King in 2017. Rylance's film appearances include Prospero's Books...
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