Senesinus

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Senesinus
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Senesinus (Italice Senesino, rite Francesco Bernardi) (31 Octobris 168627 Novembris 1758) fuit contraltus castratus Italicus, hodie praecipue pro conlaboratione diuturna cum compositore Georgio Friderico Handel memorandus.

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Caricatura? perfunctionis Flavio operae Handelianae: Senesinus (laeva), supranus Francisca Cuzzoni, et castratus Caietanus Berenstadt.
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Caricatura Senesini.
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Bibliographia

  • Avanzati, E. 2006. The unpublished Senesino. In Handel and the Castrati, pp. 5–9. Londinii: Handel House Museum.
  • Chrissochoidis, Ilias. 2010. Senesino's Black Boy (1725). The Handel Institute Newsletter 21(1, vere):7–8.
  • Dean, W. 2003. Senesino. In The New Grove Dictionary of Music.
  • Heriot, A. 1956. The Castrati in Opera. Londinii.
  • LaRue, C. S. 1995. Handel and his Singers. Oxoniae.
  • Mainwaring, J. 1760. Memoirs of the life of the late G. F. Handel. Londinii.
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