Farinelli Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Farinelli Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Farinelli (Italian pronunciation: [fariˈnÉ›lË i]; 24 January 1705 â€"

16 September 1782)[a] was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo

Nicola Broschi (pronounced [ˈkarlo ˈbrÉ"ski]), a celebrated Italian

castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in

the history of opera. Farinelli has been described as having soprano

vocal range and sang the highest note customary at the time,

C6.Broschi was born in Andria (in what is now Apulia, Italy) into a

family of musicians. As recorded in the baptismal register of the

church of S. Nicola in Andria, his father Salvatore was a composer and

maestro di cappella of the city's cathedral, and his mother, Caterina

Barrese, a citizen of Naples. The Duke of Andria, Fabrizio Carafa, a

member of the House of Carafa, one of the most prestigious families of

the Neapolitan nobility, honored Maestro Broschi by taking a leading

part in the baptism of his second son, who was baptised Carlo Maria

Michelangelo Nicola. [In later life, Farinelli wrote: "Il Duca

d'Andria mi tenne al fonte." ("The Duke of Andria held me at the

font.")]. In 1706 Salvatore also took up the non-musical post of

governor of the town of Maratea (on the western coast of what is now

Basilicata), and in 1709 that of Terlizzi (some twenty miles

south-east of Andria). Unlike many castrati, who came from poor

families, Farinelli was well-to-do, and was related to minor nobility

on both sides of the family.From 1707, the Broschi family lived in the

coastal city of Barletta, a few miles from Andria, but at the end of

1711, they made the much longer move to the capital city of Naples,

where, in 1712 Carlo's elder brother Riccardo was enrolled at the

Conservatory of S. Maria di Loreto, specialising in composition. Carlo

had already shown talent as a boy singer, and was now introduced to

the most famous singing-teacher in Naples, Nicola Porpora. Already a

successful opera composer, in 1715 Porpora was appointed maestro at

the Conservatory of S. Onofrio, where his pupils included such

well-known castrati as Giuseppe Appiani, Felice Salimbeni and Gaetano

Majorano (known as Caffarelli), as well as distinguished female

singers such as Regina Mingotti and Vittoria Tesi; Farinelli may well

have studied with him privately.
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