Anna Lucia De Amicis
Anna Lucia De Amicis (* 1733 in Naples ; † 1816 there ) was an Italian opera singer (soprano).
Life
Anna Lucia De Amicis was probably born in 1733 to Domenico and Rosalba Baldacci. Her father took part in various buffa operas, especially at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples , and presumably also provided his daughter with musical training. She is also said to have been a student of the famous contralto Vittoria Tesi .
From the 1750s De Amicis appeared in various comic operas in Italy, for example in 1754 in Il cicisbeo impertante in the Teatro Pubblico di Pisa and in Il finto turco by Girolamo Cordella , 1754–55 (Carnival) in Calamita de 'cuori by Baldassare Galuppi at the Teatro Formagliari in Bologna and in Finta sposa by Gaetano Latilla ibid.
After that she apparently went on a tour of Europe. In July 1758 she appeared in Paris in the Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi . A year later she worked in Il Tutore Burlato, also with Baldassare Galuppi in Brussels. With this production it can also be proven in 1760–61 in Holland and 1762 in Ireland. Then she was in London , where she first appeared in the 1762–63 season at the King's Theater - in various pasticci that were arranged by Johann Christian Bach , one under the title Il Tutore e la Pupilla , another under the title La Cascina and finally on April 3, 1763 in La Calamita de 'Cuori by Baldassare Galuppi. In the same year 1763 she also sang a serious role for the first time - in Johann Christian Bach's Orione - on February 19 and a little later in his Zanaida (May 7, 1763, London).
As a result, she seems to have said goodbye to the Opere buffe and only appeared in serious roles, for example 1763-64 in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Tamerlano by Giuseppe Scolari and on Pentecost 1764 in Achille in Sciro by Carlo Monza . Further appearances followed in Lucca in autumn 1764 in Adriano in Siria and in August 1765 at the Innsbruck Court Opera in Romolo ed Ersilia by Johann Adolf Hasse .
After she got into a quarrel, she wanted to retire from opera life. In 1768 she married the Florentine doctor Francesco Buonsollazzi. After the marriage, De Amicis continued her career and appeared in Venice in 1768–69 and 1770–71 and in Naples in 1769–70 and 1771–72. There she played various title roles in operas by Niccolò Jommelli , such as Armida abbandonata (1770) and Ifigenia in Tauride (1771).
At that time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought a lot of her and it is said that the success of his Lucia Silla in Milan in 1772 was largely due to her singing skills. From 1773 to 1776 she sang in Naples, then three years in Turin (1776–78). She sang her last major public role in the premiere of the Italian version of the Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck in Bologna (1778), although she is said to have sung in private concerts in Naples for another ten years.
Anna Lucia De Amicis died in Naples in 1816.
Work (selection)
- Venice (Pentecost 1764), Teatro San Salvatore : Sofonisba by Antonio Borroni
- Lucca (autumn 1764), Adriano in Siria (pasticcio)
- Milan (1763–64), Teatro Regio Ducale, Siroe by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi and Caio Mario by Giuseppe Scolari
- Vienna (1765), L'olimpiade by Florian Leopold Gassmann
- Innsbruck (August 1765), Court Opera, Romolo ed Ersilia by Johann Adolf Hasse
- Milan 1772, Lucia Silla by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Web links
- BM Antolini: Anna Lucia de Amicis in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Italian), accessed on December 11, 2014.
- Anna Lucia de Amicis Buonsollazzi in the Mozart Infonet (Portuguese), there also a picture of her (without citing the source), accessed on December 11, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Lorenz: The Will of Vittoria Tesi Tramontini , March 31, 2016 (update: July 30, 2018), on: Michael Lorenz - Musical Trifles and Biographical Paralipomena , online (accessed October 24, 2019)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | De Amicis, Anna Lucia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera singer (soprano) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1733 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
DATE OF DEATH | 1816 |
Place of death | Naples |