1780–1861, Italian Giovanni Battista Velluti, the Italian soprano castrato, created Rossini’s only castrato role, as Arsace in his Aureliano in Palmira (1813), but infuriated the composer with his pretentious and showy ornamentation. After that Rossini wrote his own ornamentation. Velluti also created the role of Armando in Meyerbeer’s Crociato in Egitto (‘The Crusader in Egypt’, 1824); Meyerbeer ...
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