Giovanni Francesco Grossi (redirect from Siface)
greatest Italian castrato singers of the baroque age. He is better known as Siface. He was born near Pescia in Tuscany, entered the papal chapel in 1675, and...
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Siface re di Numidia (also: Siface or Viriate) is a libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It is a reworking of La forza della virtù by de:Domenico...
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Baldassare Ferri (1610–1680) Atto Melani (1626–1714) Giovanni Grossi ("Siface") (1653–1697) Pier Francesco Tosi (1654–1732) Francesco Ceccarelli (1752–1814)...
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wife of Nero, in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. The castrato Siface was also popular with the public, and counted among his admirers Christina...
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Sofonisba* (Sophonisba), daughter of Hasdrubal Alessandro Bernard ... Siface* (Syphax), King of Cirta Luigi Chellini ... Scipione* (Scipio), Roman consul...
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1738 Dresden Viriate opera seria 3 acts Domenico Lalli after Metastasio's Siface Carnival 1739 Venice Numa Pompilio opera seria 3 acts Stefano Benedetto...
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approach his skill as a singer.[citation needed] Caffarelli, Matteuccio, Siface, Senesino, Gizziello, Marchesi, Carestini, and some others were very famous...
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Viriate in the premiere of Giuseppe Sellitto's setting of Metastasio's Siface, re di Numidia; a pastiche work which also contained music by other composers...
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amore (Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini, 1736) La simpatia del sangue (1737) Siface (1737) L'Olimpiade (1737) Amor vuol sofferenza 1739 Festa teatrale (1739)...
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composers to set the respective texts to music are indicated next to the title Siface, re di Numidia (1723) – Francesco Feo Didone abbandonata (1724) – Domenico...
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Cesare's arias "Non paventa del mar le procelle", taken out of Porpora's 1730 Siface, and "È ver che all'amo intorno", taken out of Porpora's 1731 Poro, were...
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Artemene (1743), 1st Version – Il Tigrane (1743) Wq.5 – La Sofonisba – Siface (1744) Wq.6 – La finta schiava (1744) Wq.7 – Ipermestra (1744) Wq.8 – Poro...
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he sang Giovanni Francesco Grossi (1653–1697), soprano castrato. He sang Siface in Cavalli's Scipione affricano (1671) and was thereafter always known by...
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Frankfurt in 1732 when she sang in the premiere of Giuseppe Maria Nelvi's Siface re di Numidia. From the autumn of 1733 until the summer of 1737, she sang...
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Lampe and Henry Carey – The Dragon of Wantley Leonardo Leo L'Olimpiade Siface Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux Nicola Antonio Porpora – Lucio Papirio...
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the camps of the Carthaginians and Siface and Scipio defeats the Carthaginians at the Campi Magni and takes Siface prisoner, to the north, Scipio refuses...
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Adriano in Siria (1750) Il Demofoonte (1750) La Didone abbandonata (1750) Siface (1752) Alessandro nell'Indie (1752) Il Ciro riconosciuto (1753) Il Demetrio...
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della Stella d'Oro, Guido of Santa Croce, Uzeta the Catanese, Farismane and Siface, Tramoro of Medina and Guelfo of Negroponte. In addition to these one could...
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Bartolomeo Damiro e Pitia opera seria Domenico Lalli 12 October 1724 Munich Siface opera seria 3 acts Metastasio carnival 1725 Milan, Ducale Didone abbandonata...
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de' Longobardi, HWV 19 Leonardo Leo – Zenobia in Palmira Nicola Porpora – Siface Georg Philipp Telemann – Pimpinone, TWV 21:15 Pietro Torri – Venceslao Leonardo...
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Battista Pergolesi – Adriano in Siria Antonio Vivaldi – L'Olimpiade Various – Siface (inc. work from Giuseppe Sellitto, Nicola Antonio Porpora, Leonardo Vinci...
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buffa 1723 an intermezzo to the dramma per musica by Nicola Porpora Il Siface, 1726 Julie Anne Sadie Companion to Baroque Music p73 1998 "Falco, Michele...
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opera seria Teuzzone in 1720. Real fame only came with his opera seria Siface, re di Numidia (Syphax, King of Numidia), for the Teatro San Bartolomeo...
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Parma, Teatro Ducale Viriate opera seria 3 acts Pietro Metastasio (after Siface) 19 May 1762 Venice, Teatro San Salvatore Il Muzio Scevola opera seria 3...
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Rome in 1671 with the castrato Giovanni Francesco Grossi as a celebrated Siface. Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani produced a greatly revised version of the...
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Bireno ed Olimpia (serenade, libretto by Gaetano Martinelli, 1782, Lisbon) Siface and Sofonisba (drama for sung music, libretto by Gaetano Martinelli, 1783...
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the Libyan tribe of Masaesyli Francesco Cavalli: Scipione affricano (as Siface) Erzsébet Szilágyi, Hungarian noblewoman, wife of János Hunyadi Ferenc Erkel:...
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Sinigaglia (libretto by Carlo Goldoni, 1760, Rome) Tetide (1760, Vienna) Siface (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1761, Venice) Olimpiade (libretto by Pietro...
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Continuo, in 3 parts, 1) Allegro assai, 2) Largo, 3) Allegro. (Gimo 76) Siface, re di Numidia (1748) Siroe (1749) Alessandro nell'Indie (1761) - Adelaide...
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Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi, 1761 L'amore artigiano Gaetano Latilla, 1761 Siface Domenico Fischietti, 1761 Li scherzi d'amore Francesco Maggiore, 1762 Tieste...
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