Giacomo David
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Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Biography
Probably self-taught as a singer, he studied composition in NaplesNaples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
with Nicola Sala
Nicola Sala
Nicola Sala was an Italian composer and music theorist born in Tocco Caudio and died in Naples. He was chapel-master and professor at Naples, having devoted himself to the collection of the finest models of printed music...
, and began his career in the early 1770s appearing on the stages of major Italian theatres such as the Teatro Regio in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and the Teatro San Benedetto
Teatro San Benedetto
The Teatro San Benedetto was a theatre in Venice, particularly prominent in the operatic life of the city in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It saw the premieres of over 140 operas, including Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, and was the theatre of choice for the presentation of opera seria until...
in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. Here he participated in the inauguration of the newly erected theatre La Fenice
La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres...
, in 1792, performing the role of Eraclide in Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era.-Life:Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and...
's I giochi di Agrigento. After having made his debut at Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
's Teatro alla Scala in 1782, he became a regular performer there at the beginning of the new century.
In 1791 Davide travelled to London, where the -e in his surname seems to have been dropped, and where he appeared at the King's Theatre
Her Majesty's Theatre
Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, in Haymarket, City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the theatre...
as the protagonist of Paisiello's Pirro, one of his favourite roles. On 17 May 1791, he took part in a charity concert in the Hannover Square
Hanover Square, London
Hanover Square, London, is a square in Mayfair, London W1, England, situated to the south west of Oxford Circus, the major junction where Oxford Street meets Regent Street....
Rooms, where he executed the tenor aria "Cara deh torna", specially composed for the occasion by Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
.
In 1801, he took part in the inauguration of Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
's Regio Teatro Nuovo, performing two premières on 20 and 21 April: Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
's Annibale in Capua (Scipione) and Simon Mayr
Simon Mayr
Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
's Ginevra di Scozia (Polinesso).
His career was very long, continuing into the early twenty years of the 19th century, with a repertoire based upon such composers as Paisiello, Mayr, Ferdinando Bertoni
Ferdinando Bertoni
Ferdinando Bertoni was an Italian composer and organist.He was born in Salò, and began his music studies in Brescia, not far from his birthplace. Around 1740 he went to Bologna, where he studied till 1745 with the famous music theorist Giovanni Battista Martini...
, Domenico Cimarosa
Domenico Cimarosa
Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school...
, Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi was an Italian opera composer.Guglielmi was born in Massa. He received his first musical education from his father, and afterwards studied under Francesco Durante at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto at Naples...
, Giuseppe Sarti
Giuseppe Sarti
Giuseppe Sarti was an Italian opera composer.-Biography:He was born at Faenza. His date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 1 December 1729. Some earlier sources say he was born on 28 December, but his baptism certificate proves the later date impossible...
, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli was an Italian composer, chiefly of opera.-Early career:Zingarelli was born in Naples, where he studied at the Santa Maria di Loreto Conservatory under Fenaroli and Speranza....
, and Francesco Bianchi
Francesco Bianchi (musician)
Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi was an Italian opera composer. Born at Cremona, Lombardy, he studied with Pasquale Cafaro and Niccolò Jommelli, and worked mainly in London, Paris and in all the major Italian operatic scenes, Venice, Naples, Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence.He wrote at least 78 operas of...
. In many operas he worked alongside the castrati
Castrato
A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.Castration before puberty prevents a boy's...
Girolamo Crescentini
Girolamo Crescentini
Girolamo Crescentini was a noted Italian singer castrato , a singing teacher and a composer.-Biography:He studied in Bologna with the noted teacher Lorenzo Gibelli and made his debut in 1783, quite advanced in years as a castrato...
and Gaspare Pacchierotti
Gaspare Pacchierotti
Gaspare Pacchierotti was a great mezzo-soprano castrato, and one of the most famous singers of his time.-Training and first appearances:...
, and the soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
Brigida Banti
Brigida Banti
Brigida Giorgi, better known by her husband's surname and her stage-name, as Brigida Banti was an Italian soprano.- Obscure beginnings :...
, who shared common artistic trends with him.
In France, where he appeared opposite Isabella Colbran
Isabella Colbran
Isabella Colbran was a Spanish opera singer, who was known in her native country as Isabel Colbrandt. Many sources note her as a dramatic coloratura soprano but, some believe that she was a mezzo-soprano with a high extension, a soprano sfogato...
in Otello
Otello (Rossini)
Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeare's play Othello....
, David came to be known as Giacomo le père ("Giacomo the father"), because his son Giovanni David
Giovanni David
Giovanni David was an Italian tenor particularly known for his roles in Rossini operas....
was also pursuing a successful career in opera.
David can be considered as the initiator of the Bergamo tenor school which was going to produce such notable singers as Andrea Nozzari
Andrea Nozzari
Andrea Nozzari was an Italian tenor.Nozzari was born in Vertova and studied in Bergamo and Rome. He is notable for the principal roles written for him by Gioachino Rossini and mostly premiered in Domenico Barbaia's theatres in Naples...
and Giacomo's aforesaid son, Giovanni (who were also actual pupils of his), Domenico Donzelli
Domenico Donzelli
Domenico Donzelli was an Italian tenor with a robust voice who enjoyed an important career in Paris, London and his native country during the 1808-1841 period.-Biography:...
, Giovanni Battista Rubini
Giovanni Battista Rubini
Giovanni Battista Rubini was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino, inspired the writing of operatic roles which today are almost impossible to cast...
, and Marco Bordogni
Marco Bordogni
Giulio Marco Bordogni , usually called Marco Bordogni, was an Italian operatic tenor and singing teacher of great popularity and success, whose mature career was based in Paris.-Biography:...
.
David died in 1830.
Artistic features
Giacomo David represents the typical baritonal tenor of the late 18th century, gifted with remarkable voice volume, but not lacking in high-pitching capability, though singing sharp notes in falsettoneFalsettone
Falsettone is a term used in modern Italian musicology to describe a vocal technique used by male opera singers in the past, in which the fluty sounds typical of falsetto singing are amplified by using the same singing technique as is used in the modal voice register...
. He had mastery of coloratura
Coloratura
Coloratura has several meanings. The word is originally from Italian, literally meaning "coloring", and derives from the Latin word colorare . When used in English, the term specifically refers to elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and...
for which he was famous: "he was able to compete with the castrato
Castrato
A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.Castration before puberty prevents a boy's...
s in the florid music and far exceed them in his dramatic intensity", and, by 1786 he was the first tenor in the history of Turin's Teatro Regio that was paid more than the primo uomo during the carnival season. "Here was a sign that, with the castrati in decline, the tenor voice was beginning to engage the audience's interest as more than the stereotype utterance of kings and old men ...". In fact, David's popularity was enormous and, along with his contemporaries, Matteo Babini
Matteo Babini
Matteo Antonio Babini , also known by the family name of Babbini, was a leading Italian tenor of the late 18th-century, and a teacher of singing and stage art.-Life and Career:Matteo Babini was born in Bologna on ....
and Giovanni Ansani, he contributed "[to lay] the foundation of the forthcoming myth of the tenor" which would be established during the Romantic era
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
.
Operatic roles
The list below is not exhaustive, but includes his most significant performances.| role | opera | genre | composer | theatre | date of performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucindo | La cameriera astuta | opera buffa Opera buffa Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc... |
Alessandro Felici | Bergamo Bergamo Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan... , Teatro di Bergamo |
carnival, 1770 |
| Conte Lelio | La sposa fedele | opera buffa | uncertain | Vicenza Vicenza Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione... , Teatro delle Grazie |
"fiera dell'anno", 1771 |
| Conte Ernesto | L'incognita perseguitata | opera buffa | Pasquale Anfossi Pasquale Anfossi Bonifacio Domenico Pasquale Anfossi was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome.... |
Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Regio-Ducal Teatro |
summer, 1773 |
| Rodomonte | Le pazzie d'Orlando | dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries... (opera seria) |
Pietro Guglielmi | Milan, Regio-Ducal Teatro | autumn, 1773 |
| Trasimede | Merope | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmi | Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat... , Teatro Regio |
26 December 1774 |
| Idreno | L'isola di Alcina ossia Alcina e Ruggiero | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Felice Alessandri Felice Alessandri Felice Alessandri was an Italian keyboardist and composer who was internationally active; working in Berlin, London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Turin. He is best known for his stage works, and he produced a total of 32 operas between 1764 and 1794... |
Turin, Nuovo Teatro Regio | 26 January 1775 |
| Artabano | Artaserse | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Battista Borghi | Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , Teatro San Benedetto Teatro San Benedetto The Teatro San Benedetto was a theatre in Venice, particularly prominent in the operatic life of the city in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It saw the premieres of over 140 operas, including Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, and was the theatre of choice for the presentation of opera seria until... |
26 December 1775 |
| Alceo | Aristo e Temira | cantata pastorale (dramma per musica) | Ferdinando Bertoni Ferdinando Bertoni Ferdinando Bertoni was an Italian composer and organist.He was born in Salò, and began his music studies in Brescia, not far from his birthplace. Around 1740 he went to Bologna, where he studied till 1745 with the famous music theorist Giovanni Battista Martini... |
Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 3 January 1776 |
| Creonte | Antigona | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Michele Mortellari | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 11 May 1776 |
| Arsace | Calliroe | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giacomo Rust Giacomo Rust Giacomo Rust or Rusti was an Italian opera composer, probably of German ancestry.Not a great deal is known about Rust. Between 1763 and 1777, Rust was active in Venice, where his first opera, a dramma giocoso, La contadina in corte, to a libretto by Niccolò Tassi, was performed in 1763... |
Padua Padua Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having... , Teatro di Padua |
June, 1776 |
| Dario | La disfatta di Dario | dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries... (opera seria) |
Giovanni Paisiello Giovanni Paisiello Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era.-Life:Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and... |
Bologna Bologna Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,... , Teatro Zagnoni |
spring, 1777 |
| Pompeo | Farnace | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Sarti Giuseppe Sarti Giuseppe Sarti was an Italian opera composer.-Biography:He was born at Faenza. His date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 1 December 1729. Some earlier sources say he was born on 28 December, but his baptism certificate proves the later date impossible... |
Bologna, Teatro Zagnoni | spring, 1777 |
| Cavaliere Aquilanto | Il zotico incivilito | opera buffa | Pasquale Anfossi | Bologna, Teatro Zagnoni | autumn, 1777 |
| Artabano | Artaserse | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Ferdinando Bertoni | Lucca Lucca Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca... , Teatro di Lucca |
autumn, 1777 |
| Massimo | Ezio | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Ferdinando Bertoni | Lucca, Teatro di Lucca | autumn, 1777 |
| Antigone | Eumene | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Battista Borghi | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 26 December 1777 |
| Medonte | Medonte, re di Epiro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Radicchi | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 3 January 1778 |
| Dario | La disfatta di Dario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Tommaso Traetta Tommaso Traetta Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta was an Italian composer.-Biography:Traetta was born in Bitonto, a town near Bari, near the top of the heel of the boot of Italy. He eventually became a pupil of the composer, singer and teacher Nicola Porpora in Naples, and scored a first success with his... |
Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | carnival, 1778 |
| Alessandro | Alessandro nell'Indie | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Luigi Marescalchi | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 27 May 1778 |
| Papirio | Quinto Fabio | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Ferdinando Bertoni | Padua, Teatro Nuovo | June, 1778 |
| Cefeo | Andromeda | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Colla | Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.... , Teatro della Pergola Teatro della Pergola The Teatro della Pergola is a historic opera house in Florence, Italy. It is located in the centre of the city on the Via della Pergola, from which the theatre takes its name... |
autumn, 1778 |
| Jarba | Didone abbandonata | dramma per musica (opera seria) | "diversi" | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | autumn, 1778 |
| Osroa | Adriano in Siria | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Sarti | Rome, Teatro Argentina | carnival, 1779 |
| Antigono | Antigono | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Gazzaniga Giuseppe Gazzaniga Giuseppe Gazzaniga was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers. He composed fifty-one operas and is considered to be one of the last Italian opera buffa composers.-Biography:... |
Rome, Teatro Argentina | carnival, 1779 |
| Amasi | La Nitteti | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Luigi Gatti | Mantua Mantua Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole... , Teatro Regio-Ducal |
spring, 1779 |
| Medonte | Medonte, re di Epiro Medonte, re di Epiro Medonte, re di Epiro is an opera seria in three acts by Giuseppe Sarti. The libretto was by Giovanni de Gamerra.-Performance history:It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 8 September 1777... |
dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Sarti | Florence, Teatro Cocomero | summer, 1779 |
| Tito Manlio | Tito Manlio | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Battista Borghi | Rome, Teatro Argentina | carnival, 1780 |
| Medonte | Medonte | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Josef Mysliveček Josef Myslivecek Josef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music... |
Rome, Teatro Argentina Teatro Argentina The Teatro Argentina is an opera house and theatre located in the Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in Rome, Italy. It is one of the oldest theatres in Rome, and was inaugurated on January 31, 1732 with Berenice by Domenico Sarro.... |
26 January 1780 |
| Cajo Mario | Cajo Mario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Domenico Cimarosa Domenico Cimarosa Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school... |
Mantua, Regio-Ducal | spring, 1780 |
| Alessandro | Alessandro nell'Indie | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Domenico Cimarosa | Rome, Teatro Argentina | 11 February 1781 |
| Cajo Mario | Il Cajo Mario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Ferdinando Bertoni | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 24 May 1781 |
| Learco | Reifile | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Felice Alessandri | Padua, Teatro Nuovo | June, 1781 |
| Giunio Bruto | Giunio Bruto | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Domenico Cimarosa | Verona Verona Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona... , Accademia Filarmonica |
autumn, 1781 |
| Dario | La disfatta di Dario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Genoa Genoa Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria.... , Teatro Sant'Agostino |
carnival, 1782 |
| Alessandro | Alessandro e Timoteo | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Sarti | Parma Parma Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world.... , Teatrino di Corte |
6 April 1782 |
| Mitridate | Tigrane | dramma per musica (opera seria) | anonymous | Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino | summer, 1782 |
| Prisco | La Circe | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Domenico Cimarosa | Milan, La Scala La Scala La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala... |
26 December 1782 |
| Palmoro | L'Idalide o sia La vergine del sole | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Sarti | Milan, La Scala | 8 January 1783 |
| Sabino | Epponia | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Giordani Giuseppe Giordani Giuseppe Giordani was an Italian composer, mainly of opera.He was born in Naples, where he studied music with Domenico Cimarosa and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. In 1774 he was appointed as music director of the chapel of the Duomo of Naples. His first opera was released in 1779... |
Novara Novara Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin... , Teatro Nuovo |
spring, 1783 |
| Medonte | Medonte, re di Epiro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Gaetano Andreozzi | Alessandria Alessandria -Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum... , Teatro d'Alessandria |
October, 1783 |
| Agamennone | Briseide | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi Francesco Bianchi Francesco Bianchi was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He is also known as Francesco del Bianchi Ferrara, also called Il Frare) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born at Ferrara. Modena is also mentioned as the place of his birth. His works were much esteemed in his time. He... |
Turin, Teatro Regio | 27 December 1783 |
| Ircano | Amaionne | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Bernardino Ottani | Turin, Teatro Regio | 24 January 1784 |
| Cajo Mario | Cajo Mario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples... , Teatro San Carlo Teatro di San Carlo The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance... |
30 May 1784 |
| Ariodante | Artenice | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giacomo Tritto Giacomo Tritto Giacomo Domenico Mario Antonio Pasquale Giuseppe Tritto was an Italian composer, known primarily for his 54 operas. He was born in Altamura, and studied in Naples; among his teachers were Nicola Fago, Girolamo Abos, and Pasquale Cafaro. One of his pupil was Ferdinando Orlandi... |
Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 13 August 1784 |
| Catone | Catone in Utica | tragedia per musica | Francesco Antonelli Torre | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 4 November 1784 |
| Antigono | Antigono | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 12 January 1785 |
| Rodoaldo | Ricimero | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Nicola Antonio Zingarelli | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 5 May 1785 |
| Agamennone | Ifigenia in Aulde | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Angelo Tarchi Angelo Tarchi Angelo Tarchi was an Italian composer of numerous operas as well as sacred music. Between 1778 and 1787, he worked primarily in Italy, producing five or six new operas each year.... |
Padua, Teatro Nuovo | June, 1785 |
| Artabano | Artaserse | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Ferdinando Bertoni | Brescia Brescia Brescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan... , Accademia degli Erranti |
summer, 1785 |
| Ormodno | Il disertore | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Verona, Accademia Filarmonica | autumn, 1785 |
| Learco | Erifile | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Carlo Monza | Turin, Teatro Regio | 26 December 1785 |
| Palmoro | Idalide | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Salvatore Rispoli | Turin, Teatro Regio | 28 January 1786 |
| Clistene | Olimpia | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Alessio Prati | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 6 June 1786 |
| Tito | Giulio Sabino | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Sarti | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 13 August 1786 |
| Mesenzio | Mesenzio, re d'Etruria | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 4 November 1786 |
| Pirro | Pirro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 12 January 1787 |
| Adrasto | Laocoonte | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 30 May 1787 |
| Asdrubale | Scipione Africano | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 13 August 1787 |
| Attalo | Ariarate | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Angelo Tarchi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 4 November 1787 |
| Teseo | Fedra | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Domenico Cimarosa | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | January, 1788 |
| Artabano | Artaserse | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Ferdinando Bertoni | Cremona Cremona Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments... , Teatro della Niblie Società |
30 May 1788 |
| Araspe | Didone abbandonata | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pasquale Anfossi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 30 May 1788 |
| Latino | Enea e Lavinia | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmo | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | August, 1788 |
| Adrasto | Il Rinaldo | dramma per musica | Antonio Sacchini Antonio Sacchini Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini was an Italian opera composer.Sacchini was born in Florence, but was raised in Naples, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris, where... and/or Pëtr Alekseevič Skokov |
Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 4 November 1788 |
| Catone | Catone in Utica | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 1 January 1789 |
| Flavio Valente | Ademira | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 30 May 1789 |
| Rodoaldo | Ricimero | opera seria | Giacomo Siri | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 13 August 1789 |
| Alessandro | Alessandro nell'Indie | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 4 November 1789 |
| Pirro | Pirro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | January, 1790 |
| Lindoro | Nina | opera buffa | Giovanni Paisiello | Naples, Teatro Fiorentini | 1790 |
| Aminta | Aminta | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmi | Naples, unknown venue | 1790 |
| Ormondo | Il disertore | dramma per musica (opera seria) | "vari" | Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino | spring, 1790 |
| Pirro | Pirro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino | spring, 1790 |
| Dario | La disfatta di Dario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Giordani Giuseppe Giordani Giuseppe Giordani was an Italian composer, mainly of opera.He was born in Naples, where he studied music with Domenico Cimarosa and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. In 1774 he was appointed as music director of the chapel of the Duomo of Naples. His first opera was released in 1779... |
Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 13 August 1790 |
| Pirro | Pirro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Bolonga, Teatro Zagnoni | autumn, 1790 |
| Arsace | La morte di Semiramide | tragedia in musica | Giuseppe Prati | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 16 November 1791 |
| Seleuco | Seleuco, re di Siria Seleuco, re di Siria Seleuco, re di Siria is an opera seria in three acts by Francesco Bianchi. The libretto was by Mattia Botturini, after Antioco by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati, a libretto first set by Francesco Gasparini in 1705.... |
dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 26 December 1791 |
| Teseo | Il sacrifizi di Creta ossia Arianna e Teseo | dramma giocoso per musica | Peter Winter Peter Winter Peter Winter was a German opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Weber, acting as a bridge between the two in the development of German opera.... |
Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | 13 February 1792 |
| Pirro | Pirro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | carnival, 1792 |
| Seleuco | Seleuco re di Siria | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto | carnival, 1792 |
| Eraclide | I giuochi di Agrigento | dramma per musica | Giovanni Paisiello | Venice, Teatro La Fenice La Fenice Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres... (inauguration) |
16 May 1792 |
| Valentiniano III | Ezio | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Angelo Tarchi | Vicenza, Teatro Nuovo | summer, 1792 |
| Alessandro | Alessandro nell'Indie | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | autumn, 1792 |
| Atar | Tarara o sia La virtù premiata | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | 26 December 1792 |
| Alfonso IV | Ines de Castro | dramma per musica | Giuseppe Giordani | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | 28 January 1793 |
| Pirro | Pirro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | spring, 1793 |
| Teseo | I sacrifizi di Creta | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Peter Winter | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | spring, 1793 |
| Cajo Mario | Cajo Mario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | anonymous | Livorno Livorno Livorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :... , Accademia degli Avvalorati |
autumn, 1793 |
| Medonte | Medonte, re di Epiro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | anonymous | Livorno, Accademia degli Avvalorati | autumn, 1793 |
| Valentiniano III | Ezio | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Angelo Tarchi | Livorno, Accademia degli Avvalorati | autumn, 1793 |
| Artabano | Artaserse | dramma per musica (opera seria) | anonymous | Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino | carnival, 1794 |
| Cajo Mario | Cajo Mario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | anonymous | Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia.... , Teatro Pubblico |
spring, 1794 |
| Sabino | Epponia | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Sebastiano Nasolini | Bergamo Bergamo Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan... , Teatro Ricciardi |
August, 1794 |
| Cajo Mario | Cajo Mario | dramma per musica (opera seria) | anonymous | Trieste Trieste Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city... , Teatro della Città e Porto-Franco |
autumn, 1794 |
| Pirro | Pirro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Trieste Trieste Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city... , Teatro della Città e Porto-Franco |
autumn, 1794 |
| Seleuco | Seleuco re di Siria | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Francesco Bianchi | Brescia Brescia Brescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan... , Accademia degl'Erranti |
carnival, 1795 |
| Latino | Il trionfo di Camilla | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 30 May 1795 |
| Surena | Arsinoe | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Gaetano Andreozzi | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 13 August 1795 |
| Publio Orazio | Gli Orazi e i Curiazi | azione tragica (opera seria) | Nicola Antonio Zingarelli | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 4 November 1795 |
| Lucio Papirio | Lucio Papirio | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Gaetano Marinelli | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | January, 1796 |
| Ottaviano | La morte di Cleopatra | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Pietro Guglielmi | Naples, San Carlo | June, 1796 |
| Eggardo | Elfrida | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | May, 1796 |
| Neleo | Artemisia regina di Caria | dramma serio per musica | Domenico Cimarosa | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 12 June 1797 |
| Zulema | Consalvo di Cordova | opera seria | Giuseppe Maria Curcio | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 13 August 1797 |
| Ulisse | Andromaca | dramma per musica | Giovanni Paisiello | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 4 November 1797 |
| Antigono | Antigono | dramma per musica | Antonio De Santis | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 12 January 1798 |
| Ulisse | Andromaca | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | May, 1798 |
| Sesostri | Le feste d'Iside | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Sebastiano Nasolini | Trieste, Teatro Regio | autumn, 1798 |
| Don Rodrigo | Ines de Castro | opera seria | Nicola Antonio Zingarelli | Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana Teatro Lirico (Milan) The Teatro Lirico is a theatre in Milan, Italy. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was particularly notable for opera performances, including the world premieres of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and Giordano's Fedora. The theatre, located on Via Rastrelli, closed in 1998... |
11 October 1798 |
| Bruto | Bruto | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giuseppe Nicolini | Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino | carnival, 1799 |
| Ormondo | Il disertore | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Angelo Tarchi | Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino | carnival, 1799 |
| Ulisse | Andromaca | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Giovanni Paisiello | Padua, Teatro Nuovo | June, 1799 |
| Kaibar | Idante | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Marcos Portugal Marcos Portugal Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal was a Portuguese classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas in Italian.... |
Milan, La Scala | carnival, 1800 |
| Boleslao | La Lodoiska La Lodoiska La Lodoiska is an opera in three acts by Simon Mayr to an Italian libretto by Francesco Gonella De Ferrari. It was Mayr's second opera and premiered at La Fenice in Venice on 26 January 1796.-Background and performance history:... |
dramma per musica (opera seria) | Simon Mayr Simon Mayr Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :... |
Milan, La Scala | carnival, 1800 |
| Mitridate | La morte di Mitridate | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Sebastiano Nasolini | Brescia, Teatro Nazionale | summer, 1800 |
| Scipione | Annibale in Capua | dramma serio per musica | Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.... |
Trieste, Regio Teatro Nuovo(inauguration) | 20 April 1801 |
| Polinesso | Ginevra di Scozia | dramma eroico-serio per musica | Simon Mayr | Trieste, Regio Teatro Nuovo (inauguration) | 21 April 1801 |
| Nerestano | Zaira ossia Il trionfo della religione | dramma tragico-serio per musica | Vincenzo Federici | Milan, Teatro Carcano(inauguration) | 3 September 1803 |
| Ottone | Adelasia e Aleramo | melodramma serio | Giovanni Simone Mayr | Milan, Teatro alla Scala | 26 December 1806 |
| Marco Albino | I Gauri | melodramma eroico | Carlo Mellara | Venice, Teatro alla Fenice | 22 February 1810 |
| Genio della Francia | Il pegno di pace | cantata a 3 voci | Francesco Caffi | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | 11 March 1810 |
| Il salto di Leucade | opera seria | Luigi Mosca Luigi Mosca Luigi Mosca was Italian composer of operas and sacred music and a noted singing teacher. He composed eighteen operas, most of them originally for theatres in Naples, but which played throughout Italy in their day.-Biography:... |
Naples, Teatro San Carlo | 15 January 1812 | |
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- This article is a substantial translation from Giacomo David in the Italian Wikipedia.
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, A history of Bel Canto, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Paperbacks), U.K., 1996, ISBN 0-19-816641-9 - Elizabeth Forbes, "Davide [David], Giacomo", in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Grove (Oxford University Press), New York, 1997, I, p. 1088, ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2