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

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

Gioacchino Conti (28 February 1714 â€" 25 October 1761), best known as

Gizziello or Egizziello, was an Italian soprano castrato opera

singer.Conti was born in Arpino in 1714, possibly the son of the

composer Nicola Conti. After studying in Naples with Domenico Gizzi,

after whom he would later be nicknamed, he made his debut in Rome at

an early age, around 1730. According to some modern encyclopedic

sources, it took place in Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse, which premiered

on 4 February at the Teatro delle Dame. However, his name does not

appear in the cast of the original libretto, and his theatrical debut

ought probably to be dated instead in 1731, in revivals of Didone

abbandonata and of the same Artaserse, both by Vinci. A colourful

anecdote relates how another overweening castrato star, Caffarelli,

rode post-haste to Rome from Naples just to attend incognito his

debut; and full of enthusiasm eventually yelled at him: "Bravo,

bravissimo Gizziello, it’s Caffariello who's telling you!" Whatever

the case, at the beginning of 1732 he was urgently called upon to

replace the castrato Nicolò Grimaldi (Nicolini), who suddenly died on

1 January during the rehearsals of Pergolesi's first opera La Salustia

at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. Having become a member of the

theatre's company, later that year he performed in new operas by

Johann Adolf Hasse, Leonardo Leo and Francesco Mancini, and in

revivals of Vinci's Catone in Utica and Artaserse.His subsequent

career led him throughout Italy, as well as abroad. In 1736â€"37 he

was in London, where he had been engaged by George Frideric Handel,

with whom he would build a profitable collaboration. Conti performed

in many of his works, such as Atalanta, Giustino, Berenice and

Arminio, as well as in a revival of Ariodante.He sang at many

premieres for the best and most famous musicians of his time,

including Niccolò Jommelli (Manlio, 1746), Baldassare Galuppi

(Artaserse, 1751) and Johann Adolf Hasse (Demetrio, 1747).
Gioacchino Conti Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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