Francesca Cuzzoni (2 April 1696 – 19 June 1778) was an Italian operatic soprano of the Baroque era. Cuzzoni was born in Parma. Her father, Angelo, was...

were originally sung by the castrato Senesino and the famous soprano Francesca Cuzzoni respectively. Handel composed eight arias and two recitatives accompagnati...

Francesca Capaldi, American child actress Frankie Corio, Scottish child actress Francesca Cumani, English racing presenter for ITV Francesca Cuzzoni,...

This was the first time the famous singers Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni appeared together in one of Handel's operas. The original cast also...

the Deborah's premiere. In solidarity with her colleague, soprano Francesca Cuzzoni also left the company. Through appeals to the nobility, Senesino,...

1727. The original cast included Faustina Bordoni as Alcestis and Francesca Cuzzoni as Antigona, as Admeto was the second of the five operas that Handel...

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...

Anastasia Robinson (c. 1692–1755) Rosa Borosini (c. 1693– after 1740) Francesca Cuzzoni (1696–1778) Margherita Durastanti (fl. 1700 – c. 1734) Maria Giustina...

with Senesino and Francesca Cuzzoni as the stars, the other two being Giulio Cesare and Tamerlano. Horace Walpole wrote of Cuzzoni in Rodelinda: She was...

internationally renowned singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The story of the opera is a fictionalisation...

opera for the Royal Academy of Music and was written for the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The opera uses an Italian-language libretto...

audiences had seen the operatic superstars, castrato Senesino and soprano Francesca Cuzzoni, performing together in an opera, and had been an immense success...

also played cello, Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, who would soon marry Francesca Cuzzoni, was the second harpsichord player. John Baptist Grano was the trumpeter...

famous star Italian singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The opera received its premiere at the King's...

April 1736 at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London with Francesca Cuzzoni-Sandoni, Carlo Broschi "Farinelli", and Francesco Bernardi "Senesino"...

Francesca Cuzzoni (1696–1778), who created the role of Asteria...

now additionally included the castrato Farinelli and the soprano Francesca Cuzzoni. Performances of Hasse's Venetian opera Artaserse played to packed...

composed an opera for the Opera of the Nobility, Adriano in Siria. Francesca Cuzzoni, Antonio Montagnana, Farinelli and Senesino had a role. George Frederic...

(died 1764) March 13 – Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768) April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer (died 1770) probable Sebastian Bodinus, composer (d...

engaged in fierce rivalry, as was the case with Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni, who started a fistfight with one another during a performance of...

illustrator (d. 1717) 1653 – Prince George of Denmark (d. 1708) 1696 – Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1778) 1719 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim...

succession for the Royal Academy of Music, each with Senesino and Francesca Cuzzoni as the stars, Giulio Cesare,Tamerlano, and Rodelinda. The directors...

for Ottone, in addition to Senesino, was celebrated Italian soprano Francesca Cuzzoni. She knew that Handel had written much of the music for the opera...

Faustina Bordoni. Faustina was at that time in a hissing fight with Francesca Cuzzoni and actually came to blows the next year during a performance of Handel...

best-known opera seria singers of their day: Senesino on the left, diva Francesca Cuzzoni in the centre, and art-loving castrato Gaetano Berenstadt on the right...

Sultan Mustafa II (d. 1752) John Worsley, scholar (d. 1767) April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1778) April 3 – Diego Bernardo de Peredo...

(b. 1716) June 16 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720) June 19 – Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1696) June 24 – Pieter Burman the Younger...

written for the castrati Farinelli, Senesino and the famous soprano Francesca Cuzzoni, the original Cleopatra. Studies in Music from the University of Western...

again revised for another revival featuring the two famous prima donnas Cuzzoni and Faustina as well as Senesino. The first modern performance was in Göttingen...

two other noblemen kneeling before the Italian soprano opera singer Francesca Cuzzoni, asking her "pray accept £8,000" to perform in London. The Earl is...