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(Jo-van’-e Bo-non-che’ne) 1670–1747 Italian composer Bononcini came from a musical family in Modena; his father Giovanni Maria was the maestro di cappella of Modena Cathedral and his younger brother, Antonio Maria, was a talented cellist and composer. The younger Giovanni was also a cellist and studied music in Bologna. He worked in Milan, then Rome – where he wrote ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1670–1747, Italian Bononcini was orphaned at the age of eight, and moved to Bologna, where he studied music and was accepted into the Accademia Filarmonica in 1686. By 1692, Bononcini had moved to Rome, where he met Silvio Stampiglia. They collaborated on several operas, including Il trionfo di Camilla (‘The Triumph of Camilla’, 1696), which ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1697–1781, Italian Venetian mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni was brought up by the composers Alessandro (1669–1750) and Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739). She made her debut in Pollarolo’s Ariodante in 1716, and was based in her home city until 1725, singing in operas by her teacher Gasparini, as well as Albinoni and Lotti. Between 1726 and 1728, she performed in ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

as a joint-stock company under royal charter. Known as ‘The Royal Academy of Music’, the enterprise involved Handel as principal composer, along with other prominent composers such as Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747). Although the project did not always run smoothly, the Academy initially was a success and several of Handel’s finest stage works, including Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724), ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1685–1759, German Handel composed 42 operas between 1704 and 1740, but most of these were neglected and seldom performed after his lifetime. In the twentieth century, Handel’s music dramas and in particular his operas underwent a renaissance that has established him as the definitive theatre composer of the late Baroque period. Handel was a maverick composer who pursued ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

recognizable. It has become a well-known convention in horror films since Mamoulian’s 1932 cinematic adaptation of Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Introduction | Late Baroque | Classical Personalities | Giovanni Bononcini | Late Baroque | Classical Influences | The Bach Dynasty | Early Baroque | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

debut at the age of 12. Nicolini sang in the cathedral and royal chapel as a soprano, but soon became associated with operas by Scarlatti. He also sang for Bononcini, Lotti, Leo, Porpora and Vinci. Nicolini visited London in 1708, and received great acclaim for performances of Scarlatti’s Pirro e Demetrio (1708). With the theatre manager ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

joined the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1720, and remained with the company until its dissolution in 1728, during which time he sang in operas by Bononcini, Ariosti and Handel. Senesino was popular in London, which explains why Handel re-engaged him in 1730 despite their often-troubled working relationship. Senesino defected to the ‘Opera of the ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Augustine Arne’s masque Alfred (1740), and is an aria for the tenor title-hero that also features chorus, trumpets and drums. Introduction | Late Baroque | Opera Personalities | Giovanni Bononcini | Late Baroque | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

based on the story of an early Roman hero who burned his hand to ashes in a fire rather than assist the Etruscan enemies of Rome. Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747) and George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) composed one act each, in that order. Normally, though, the pasticcio did not result from such a neat division of labour. ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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