• Thumbnail for Faustina Bordoni
    Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. In Hamburg, Germany, the Johann Adolph Hasse Museum is dedicated to her...
    9 KB (1,229 words) - 20:46, 13 August 2024
  • Alexandria Faustina Agolley, Australian television music presenter Faustina Acheampong, First Lady of the Republic of Ghana Faustina Bordoni (1697–1781)...
    3 KB (398 words) - 20:36, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johann Adolph Hasse
    composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently...
    19 KB (2,584 words) - 18:42, 6 October 2024
  • mathematician Ernesta Bordoni (1873–?), Italian alleged prostitute and convicted murderer studied by criminologists Faustina Bordoni (1697–1781), Italian...
    1 KB (184 words) - 16:35, 11 November 2024
  • Faustina Hasse is the name of one of the following persons: Faustina Hasse, born as Faustina Bordoni (1697–1781), Italian mezzo-soprano Faustina Hasse...
    279 bytes (64 words) - 18:02, 17 March 2013
  • Thumbnail for Francesca Cuzzoni
    Ariodante, in which, for the first time, she appeared on the same stage as Faustina Bordoni, later her great rival. They also sang together in Venice the following...
    12 KB (1,774 words) - 05:07, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tolomeo
    singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The story of the opera is a fictionalisation of some events in the...
    15 KB (1,826 words) - 16:56, 2 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alessandro (opera)
    superbia d'Alessandro. This was the first time the famous singers Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni appeared together in one of Handel's operas....
    20 KB (2,196 words) - 01:39, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Admeto
    Haymarket Theatre in London on 31 January 1727. The original cast included Faustina Bordoni as Alcestis and Francesca Cuzzoni as Antigona, as Admeto was the second...
    20 KB (2,510 words) - 14:00, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siroe
    Academy of Music and was written for the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The opera uses an Italian-language libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym...
    16 KB (1,906 words) - 09:44, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Riccardo Primo
    singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The opera received its premiere at the King's Theatre in London on...
    15 KB (1,854 words) - 06:27, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Opera
    such as Farinelli and Senesino, as well as female sopranos such as Faustina Bordoni, became in great demand throughout Europe as opera seria ruled the...
    107 KB (12,908 words) - 17:22, 3 November 2024
  • September 2013 Ferris, George Titus, Great Singers, First Series (Faustina Bordoni to Henrietta Sontag); Great Singers, Second Series (Malibran to Titiens)...
    8 KB (885 words) - 16:53, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johann Adolph Hasse Museum
    career as a prominent composer. He and his wife, the opera singer Faustina Bordoni, gained international prestige and played respected roles at the European...
    3 KB (184 words) - 19:29, 9 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for George Frideric Handel
    is derived, was performed as a stopgap, waiting for the arrival of Faustina Bordoni. In 1727, Handel was commissioned to write four anthems for the Coronation...
    100 KB (11,393 words) - 01:20, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Handel Hendrix House
    bought two paintings of Jennens (by Thomas Hudson) and the opera singer Faustina Bordoni (by Bartolomeo Nazari). In 2022 it was reported that Handel & Hendrix...
    25 KB (3,343 words) - 23:20, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ca' Rezzonico
    Venetian artists. They include a fine pastel portrait of the opera singer Faustina Bordoni by Carriera. Another notable pastel portrait is that of Cecilia Guardi...
    50 KB (5,531 words) - 16:17, 15 August 2024
  • lutenist-composer of the 18th century. He also studied voice with Faustina Bordoni-Hasse, and castrato Domenico Annibali. Bilohradsky eventually became...
    4 KB (324 words) - 14:30, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Partenope (Vinci)
    was premiered 31 January with Antonia Merighi as Queen Partenope and Faustina Bordoni as Rosmira. Vivaldi set Stampiglia's libretto as a pasticcio Rosmira...
    2 KB (206 words) - 12:03, 1 July 2024
  • of Hasse, who arrived in Dresden in July 1731 with his famous wife, Faustina Bordoni-Hasse, the most brilliant female singer of the Baroque era. Shortly...
    27 KB (3,479 words) - 20:52, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ifigenia in Tauride (Vinci)
    December 1724 at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice, with Faustina Bordoni in the title role. The opera was Vinci's first success in Venice and...
    1 KB (88 words) - 22:20, 13 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bartolomeo Nazari
    Venice Samuel Egerton Ca' Rezzonico Venice Old man in an eastern attire Faustina Bordoni Angelo Maria Quirini The Nazari-A Forgotten Family of Venetian Portrait...
    4 KB (325 words) - 12:25, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bajazet (Gasparini opera)
    Antonio Bernacchi (Tamerlano), Marina Benta Bulgarelli (Asteria), Faustina Bordoni (Irene), Diana Vico (Andronico), Antonio Piasi (Clearco), Battista...
    6 KB (535 words) - 04:50, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Attilio Regolo (Hasse)
    Annibali, while the role of Attilia was composed for Hasse's wife Faustina Bordoni. Attilio Regolo Axel Köhler (Regolo), Markus Schäfer (Manlio), Martina...
    3 KB (317 words) - 11:26, 4 September 2024
  • Herman-François Delange October – Anton Zimmermann, composer November 4 – Faustina Bordoni, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1697) date unknown – William Paxton, cellist...
    6 KB (742 words) - 20:41, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Carey (writer)
    in 1726 and in that year he produced Faustina, or, the Roman Songstress, a satire of Faustina Bordoni. Faustina was at that time in a hissing fight with...
    20 KB (3,003 words) - 04:10, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Artaserse (Hasse)
    Polpetta'' Antonio Castori, aka Castorini 2nd version: Dresden, 1740 Faustina Bordoni Domenico Annibali Ventura Rocchetti, aka Venturini Sofia Denner Giovanni...
    33 KB (1,461 words) - 15:19, 13 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Regina Mingotti
    house, arousing the jealousy of that company's reigning prima donna Faustina Bordoni. In 1747, she created the role of Ercole (Hercules) in Gluck's Le nozze...
    4 KB (469 words) - 04:18, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of opera
    Anna Maria Strada, and the mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, who all performed in London for Händel. Bordoni and Cuzzoni maintained a strong rivalry between...
    343 KB (43,449 words) - 11:51, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elisabeth Olin
    passionate and noble. Elisabeth Olin was compared to Francesca Cuzzoni, Faustina Bordoni and Caterina Gabrielli. She has been referred to as "Sweden's first...
    18 KB (2,579 words) - 10:32, 10 November 2024