Giuseppe Aprile

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A page from the manuscript for Placide venti ameni by Giuseppe Aprile, written in his own hand.

Giuseppe Aprile (28 October 1731 – 11 January 1813) was an Italian castrato singer and music teacher. He was also known as 'Sciroletto' or 'Scirolino'.

Aprile was born in

Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He then began a great career, performing in prominent theatres throughout Italy, Germany, and even Madrid. His voice could reach E5. He withdrew from the stage in 1785 and became a singing instructor in Naples. Domenico Cimarosa, Michael Kelly and Emma, Lady Hamilton were among his pupils. See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#Giuseppe Aprile
. He wrote a popular book on singing instruction, The Italian Method of Singing, with 36 Solfeggi (1791).

Operatic roles

  • Euribate in Ifigenia in Aulide by Niccolò Jommelli and Tommaso Traetta (Naples, 1752)
  • Edelberto in Ricimero re de' Goti by Baldassare Galuppi (Naples, 1753)
  • Publio Cornelio Scipione in Livia Claudia Vestale by Niccolò Conforto (Rome, 1755)
  • Pompeo in Pompeo magno in Armenia by Francesco Saverio Garzia (Rome, 1755)
  • Cesare in Catone in Utica by Francesco Poncini (Parma, 1756)
  • Giasone in Issipile by Baldassare Galuppi (Parma, 1756)
  • Demetrio in the anonymous Antigono (Lucca, 1756)
  • Timante in Demofoonte by Antonio Gaetano Pampani (Rome, 1757)
  • Ezio in Ezio by Tommaso Traetta (Rome, 1757)
  • Aminta in Il re pastore by Antonio Mazzoni (Bologna, 1757)
  • Linceo in the anonymous Ipermestra (Venice, 1757)
  • Enea in Didone abbandonata by Tommaso Traetta (Venice, 1757)
  • Ciro in Ciro riconosciuto by Niccolò Jommelli (Mantua, 1758)
  • Timante in Demofoonte by Tommaso Traetta (Mantua, 1758)
  • Sesto in La clemenza di Tito by Giuseppe Scarlatti (Venice, 1760)
  • Cosrovio in Gianguir by Vincenzo Ciampi (Venice, 1760)
  • Castore in I tindaridi by Tommaso Traetta (Parma, 1760)
  • Alceste in Demetrio by Baldassare Galuppi (Padua, 1761)
  • Tiridate in Zenobia by Giovanni Battista Pescetti (Padua, 1761)
  • Megacle in L'Olimpiade of Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1761)
  • Alceste in Demetrio by Giuseppe Ponzo (Turin, 1762)
  • Achille in Ifigenia in Aulide by Ferdinando Bertoni (Turin, 1762)
  • Enea in Didone abbadonata by Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1763)
  • Timante in Demofoonte by Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1764)
  • Motezuma in Motezuma by Gian Francesco de Majo (Turin, 1765)
  • Megacle in L'Olimpiade by
    Johann Adolf Hasse
    (Turin, 1765)
  • Aminta in Il re pastore by Niccolò Piccinni (Naples, 1765)
  • Euriso in Creso by Antonio Sacchini (Naples, 1765)
  • Teseo in the pasticcio Arianna e Teseo (Palermo, 1766)
  • Fetonte in Fetonte by Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1768)
  • Gandarte in Nicoraste by Antonio Sacchini (Venice, 1769)
  • Giulio Cesare in Cesare in Egitto by Niccolò Piccinni (Milan, 1770)
  • Enea in Didone abbandonata by Ignazio Celoniat (Milan, 1770)
  • Rinaldo in Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli (Naples, 1770; Florence, 1775)
  • Demetrio in Antigono by Pasquale Cafaro (Naples, 1770)
  • Timante in Demofoonte by Niccolò Jommelli (Naples, 1770)
  • Eumene in Eumene by Gian Francesco de Majo (Naples, 1771)
  • Perseo in Andromeda by Giuseppe Colla (Turin, 1772)
  • Maometto in Tamas Kouli-Kan nell'Indie by Gaetano Pugnani (Turin, 1772)
  • Sesto in La clemenza di Tito by Pasquale Anfossi (Naples, 1772)
  • Achille in Achille in Sciro by Antonio Amicone (Naples, 1772)
  • Titano in Cerere placata by Niccolò Jommelli (Naples, 1772)
  • Linceo in Ipermestra by Niccolò Piccinni (Naples, 1772)
  • Teseo in Arianna e Teseo by Giacomo Insanguine (Naples, 1773)
  • Alceste in the pasticcio Demetrio (Florence, 1774)
  • Maometto in Tamas Kouli-Kan nell'Indie by
    Pietro Guglielmi
    (Florence, 1774)
  • Vologeso in Vologeso re de' Parti by Giovanni Marco Rutini (Florence, 1775)
  • Marco Antonio in Cleopatra by Carlo Monza (Turin, 1776)
  • Sicotenal in Sicotenal by Giovanni Marco Rutini (Turin, 1776)
  • Telemaco in Calipso by Bernardino Ottani (Turin, 1777)
  • Gengis-Kan in Gengis-Kan by Pasquale Anfossi (Turin, 1777)
  • Euriso in Creso re di Lidia by Giovanni Battista Borghi (Florence, 1777)
  • Enea in Enea nel Lazio by Antonio Burroni (Rome, 1778)
  • Megacle in L'Olimpiade by Pasquale Anfossi (Rome, Perugia, and Treviso, 1778)
  • Arsace in
    Medonte, re di Epiro by Giuseppe Sarti
    (Perugia, 1778; Florence, 1779)
  • Cleomene in Erifile by Francesco Bianchi (Florence, 1779)
  • Selimo in the pasticcio Il Solimano (Florence, 1779)
  • Tarsile in La Calliroe by Josef Mysliveček (Pisa, 1779)
  • Annio in the pasticcio Cajo Mario (Pisa, 1779)
  • Annio in Cajo Mario by Domenico Cimarosa (Rome, 1780)
  • Tito in Tito nelle Gallie by Pasquale Anfossi (Rome, 1780)

Source: Claudio Sartori. I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800. Cuneo, 1992–1994.

References

  • Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. (1958). "Aprile, Giuseppe". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (5th ed.). p. 41.

External links

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