Anna Bergerotti

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Anna Bergerotti , (* around 1630 ; † around 1700 ) was an Italian opera singer whose skills were particularly popular with the courtly society of the French King Louis XIV . She promoted the young Jean-Baptiste Lully and later profited from him.

Life

She came to Paris in 1654 because of her role in Carlo Caproli's opera Le Nozze di Peleo e di Theti . The Queen Mother Anna of Austria particularly liked her angelic voice , which was reflected in Bergerotti's relatively high annual salary of 3,600 livres . She was called to the court every day because she knew music in theory and practice. From 1655 to 1669, during her stay in Paris, she was one of the few there who could correctly assess the importance of the great German composer Johann Jakob Froberger . Her taste and extensive education enabled her to become acquainted with important personalities who visited Paris - she maintained a correspondence with Constantijn Huygens . Initially, Cardinal Mazarin , and later the state treasury, financed a performance location for her, to which she invited a selected audience to concerts. An achievement that no other musician was able to achieve was the assumption of the cost of an apartment near the royal residence. The composer Jean-Baptiste Lully benefited from the collaboration that happened with her in the divertissements of King Louis XIV. Like Lully, she was able to stay in Paris in 1662 when many artists had to leave France after Mazarin's death. In 1664 she was there when Mariage forcé, the second ballet comedy, was performed in February , and in July she sang to the visit of the papal legate Flavio Chigi in Palace of Versailles . After leaving Paris, she married an Italian marquis.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jérôme de La Gorce: Jean-Baptiste Lully , Librairie Arthème Fayard, [Paris] 2002, p. 77 f.
  2. ↑ de La Gorce 2002: p. 78.
  3. ↑ a b de La Gorce: p. 79.
  4. ↑ de La Gorce 2002: p. 130.
  5. ↑ de La Gorce 2002: p. 478.
  6. ↑ de La Gorce 2002: p. 147.
  7. ↑ Article Anna Bergerotti in Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne (accessed September 27, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Bergerotti, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1630
DATE OF DEATH around 1700