Angelo Maria Amorevoli
Angelo Maria Amorevoli | |
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Born | Venice, Italy | 16 September 1716
Died | 15 November 1798 Dresden, Germany | (aged 82)
Occupation | Opera singer (tenor) |
Years active | 1729–1771 |
Angelo Maria Amorevoli (16 September 1716 – 15 November 1798) was a leading Italian tenor in Baroque opera.
Biography
Angelo Amorevoli began singing in
In 1739 he traveled to
In 1748 Amorevoli visited Vienna again, and there he met the celebrated librettist and great poet Pietro Metastasio, who highly commended his singing ability, and took part in a third theatre inauguration, at the Burgtheater, singing in Gluck's La Semiramide Riconosciuta (Ircano). He then lived in Milan again from 1748 to 1749 and from 1759 to 1764, the year he decided to retire from the stage. Returned definitively to Dresden, he was engaged by the Saxon Court, but only as a chamber and Church singer, which posts he held until about 1771. He died in Dresden in 1798.
Artistic features
Angelo Amorevoli is considered one of the greatest tenors in the first half of the 18th century's European operatic scene and the leader, together with
Roles created
The following list is not complete.[2]
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Angelo Amorevoli". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
Role | Opera | Genre | Composer | Theatre | Première's date |
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Massimo | Ezio | dramma per musica | Riccardo Broschi | Turin, Teatro Regio | 26 December 1730 |
Ulisse[3] | Achille in Sciro | dramma per musica (opera seria) | Domenico Natale Sarro | Naples, Nuovo Grande Real Teatro San Carlo (inauguration) | 4 November 1737 |
Clistene | L'Olimpiade | dramma per musica | Leonardo Leo | Naples, Nuovo Grande Real Teatro San Carlo | 19 December 1737 |
Lycas/Giove | Le nozze di Psiche con Amore | festa teatrale | Leonardo Leo | Naples, Nuovo Grande Real Teatro San Carlo | 23 June 1738 |
Fenicio[4] | Demetrio | opera eroica (pasticcio, 3rd version) | Leonardo Leo (Acts 1 and partly 2), Lorenzo Fago, Gian Francesco de Majo, Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (Act 2), Riccardo Broschi (Act 3) | Naples, Nuovo Grande Real Teatro San Carlo | 30 June 1738 |
Osroa | Adriano in Siria | dramma per musica | Giovanni Alberto Ristori | Naples, Real Teatro San Carlo | 19 December 1739 |
Latino | Il trionfo di Camilla | dramma per musica (opera eroica, 1st version) | Nicola Porpora | Naples, Real Teatro San Carlo | 20 January 1740 |
Mitrane | Arsace | opera seriain 3 atti | Francesco Feo | Turin, Nuovo Teatro Regio (inauguration) | 26 December 1740 |
Artabano | Artaserse | dramma per musica | Giuseppe Arena | Turin, Nuovo Teatro Regio | 21 January 1741 |
Ircano | La Semiramide riconosciuta | dramma per musica | Christoph Willibald Gluck | Vienna, Burgtheater (Theater nächst der Burg, Theater bei der Hofburg, Hofburg-Theater, Kaiserlische Königliche National Hoftheater) (inauguration) | 14 May 1748 |
Manlio | Attilio Regolo | dramma per musica | Johann Adolf Hasse
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Dresden, Grosses Königliches Opernhaus am Zwingerhof (Hoftheater) | 12 January 1750 |
Dafni | Euridice | favola pastorale per musica (pasticcio) | Baldassarre Galuppi
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Vienna, Hof-Burgtheater | 26 July 1750 |
Solimano | Solimano | dramma per musica (1st version) | Johann Adolf Hasse | Dresden, Grosses Königliches Opernhaus am Zwingerhof (Hoftheater) | 5 February 1753 |
Sources
- G. Zechmeister: Die Wiener Theater nächst der Burg und nächst dem Kärntnertor von 1747 bis 1776 (Vienna, 1971)
- R. Celletti: Storia del belcanto, Discanto Edizioni, Fiesole, 1983, passim
- E. Selfridge-Field: Pallade veneta: Writings on Music in Venetian Society 1650–1750, p. 310 (Venezia, 1985)
- W.C. Holmes: Opera Observed: Views of a Florentine Impresario in the Early Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1993)
- S. Mamy: Les grands castrats napolitains à Venise au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 41, 120 (Liège, 1994)
- S. Caruselli (a cura di), Grande enciclopedia della musica lirica, Longanesi &C. Periodici S.p.A., Rome, Vol. 4, p. 1196/1197
- S. Hansell, K. Lipton: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ad nomen
- This article contains substantial material translated from Angelo Amorevoli in the Italian Wikipedia.
Notes
- ^ R. Celletti, op cit, p 129.
- ^ For a wider list, cf. Angelo Amorevoli/Ruoli Creati in the Italian Wikipedia, or Angelo Amorevoli/Repertoire in the German Wikipedia.
- ^ Reinhard Strohm: Dramma Per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the Eighteenth Century. S. 109
- ^ According to the original libretto published by Francesco Ricciardo in Naples, 1738 (cf Internet Culturale and Italianopera.org).