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    Giovanni Battista Velluti, colloquially "Giambattista" (28 January 1780 – 22 January 1861), was an Italian castrato. Considered "the last great castrato"...
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    Antonio Pistocchi (1659–1726) Giovanni Battista "Giambattista" Velluti (1781–1861) Domenico Mustafà (1829–1912) Giovanni Cesari (1843–1904) Domenico Salvatori...
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    known into the 19th century. The last famous Italian castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti, died in 1861. The sole existing sound recording of a castrato...
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    successful works was Tebaldo e Isolina (La Fenice, Venice, 1822). Giovanni Battista Velluti premiered the work, and made the role his own. The opera was performed...
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    March 1824. The part of Armando was sung by the famous castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti; the opera was probably the last to feature a leading role written...
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    Petriolo, Tolentino, and Urbisaglia. Filippo Corridoni, syndicalist Giovanni Battista Velluti, castrated opera singer Massimo Ciocci, football player Luigi...
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    opened the theatre's Carnival season with the famed castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti as Arsace. It was the only role that Rossini wrote for the castrato...
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    Tamberlick, Italian tenor with a powerful voice and vibrant tone Giovanni Battista Velluti, the last castrato of renown In the second half of the 19th century—especially...
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    the last major opera with a role for a castrato (played then by Giovanni Battista Velluti). In his long career Crivelli distinguished himself principally...
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  • Miari (Belluno 1777- Landris di Sedico 1854) and the soprano Giovanni Battista Velluti (Corridonia 1780 – Sambruson di Dolo 1861); the humanists Andrea...
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  • Development Award 1998 Sullivan Foundation Grant Robert Crowe Giovanni Battista Velluti in London, 1825–1829: Literary Constructions of the Last Operatic...
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    castrati Giovanni Manzuoli, Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano), Farinelli (Carlo Broschi), Gizziello (Gioacchino Conti) and Gian Battista Velluti, the last...
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    his power and his skill in both coloratura and expressive singing Giovanni Velluti (1780–1861), soprano. The last of the leading castrate singers Gemma...
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  • Baretti. Serie dei senatori fiorentini (1722) Cronica di Firenze di Donato Velluti, dall’anno 1300, in circa, fino al 1370, Florence, 1731 (on-line) Lezioni...
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  • Charleville Mezieres. 1998 Prize winner - International Competition "Giovan Battista Velluti" - New Voices for Opera [citation needed] 2001 Czech Crystal Award...
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    Marini Portrait of Niccolò Martelli's Family in Parlor (1777) by Giovanni Battista Benigni Terracotta Bust of Ugolino di Luigi Martelli, Bishop of Narni...
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  • Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto on 23 July, for the first appearance of Giovanni Velluti, the castrato, who was one of the great attractions of the year. At...
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    Giulio Rossi (1804–1833) Giovanni Battista Rossi (1834–1837) Vincenzo Menchi (1839–1843) Pietro Niccolò Forti (1847–1854) Giovanni Antonio Benini (Bedini)...
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    Gioachino Rossini (category Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini alumni)
    Turco in Italia. Arsace in Aureliano was sung by the castrato Giambattista Velluti; this was the last opera role Rossini wrote for a castrato singer as the...
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    Francesco Toli (1803–1833 Died) Angiolo Maria Gilardoni (1834–1835 Died) Giovanni Battista Rossi (1837–1849 Died) Leone Niccolai, O. Cart. (1849–1857 Died) Enrico...
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    1858 – 1891 Giuseppe Maria Costantini 1 June 1891 – 9 January 1900 Donato Velluti Zati di San Clemente 15 April 1907 – 11 December 1927 Andrea Giacinto Longhin...
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