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Giovanni Battista Velluti as a young man. Giovanni Battista Velluti, colloquially "Giambattista" (28 January 1780 – 22 January 1861), was an Italian castrato.Considered "the last great castrato", [1] he had a reputation of being something of a diva, with some singers refusing to appear with him.
Alessandro Moreschi c. 1914. Moreschi's Director at the Sistine was Domenico Mustafà, himself once a castrato soprano, who realised that Moreschi was, amongst other things, the only hope for the continuation of the Sistine tradition of performing the famous setting of the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri during Holy Week.
A castrato (Italian; pl.: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice can also occur in one who, due to an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity .
1922 — Death of Alessandro Moreschi, last Vatican castrato singer. 1924 — Arturo Toscanini conducts Puccini's last opera Turandot at La Scala in Milan. 1925 — Italian radio starts to broadcast music programs. 1951 — First San Remo Festival of Italian popular music. 1953 — First edition of the Ravello Festival.
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Giovanni Carestini (13 December 1700 in Filottrano, near Ancona – 1759 in Bologna) was an Italian castrato of the 18th century, who sang in the operas and oratorios of George Frideric Handel. He is also remembered as having sung for Johann Adolf Hasse and Christoph Willibald Gluck .
In 1668, Melani sang publicly for the last time at Palazzo Colonna, and from then on dedicated himself exclusively to politics and diplomacy, writing several books on Rome, advising the King of France, mediating with the German princes, and acting as go-between among the Italian States. He finally died at the age of 88 in 1714 in Paris.
Monticelli was born in Milan about 1710. He first appeared in public in Venice in 1728, in Le due rivali in amore by Tomaso Albinoni, and then in various cities in Italy, including Treviso, Padua and Verona; there were further appearances in Venice, including in 1731 and 1732 with Giovanni Carestini, Antonio Bernacchi and Faustina Bordoni.