Francesco Benucci
Francesco Benucci (born around 1745 in Livorno ; died April 5, 1824 in Florence ) was an Italian opera singer ( bass ) in Vienna at the time of Mozart.
Life
Francesco Benucci began his singing career around 1768 in his hometown Livorno, and in 1769 he performed in Pistoia . His first engagements took him to Madrid from 1774 to 1778 , to the Teatro San Samuele in Venice in 1778/79 and to La Scala in Milan in 1779/80 , where he premiered the opera Fra due litiganti il terzo gode by Giuseppe Sarti in 1782 .
He was then with Nancy Storace of Giacomo Durazzo with very high salaries from Venice to the Vienna Court Opera brought where on 2 April 1783 Antonio Salieri 's gelosi La Scuola de ' started by one of the ideas reported Mozart at the seventh May his father Leopold .
In Vienna, Benucci appeared in the following twelve years in 1785 in the Hofburg as Rosmondo in Gli sposi malcontenti by Stephen Storace , in the same year as Trofonio in La grotta di Trofonio by Antonio Salieri , and in 1786 as Tita in Una cosa rara by Martín y Soler and 1788 in the title role in Axur, re d'Ormus by Salieri. Nancy Storace and Benucci accompanied each other on the harpsichord and piano in vocal performances.
On May 1, 1786, Benucci sang the title hero in the world premiere of Figaro's Wedding , on May 7, 1788, the Leporello in the Viennese version of Don Giovanni, and on January 26, 1790, the Guglielmo in the world premiere of Così fan tutte .
On February 7, 1792, he took part in the first performance of Domenico Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto in the role of Count Robinson at the Hofburgtheater .
In 1788/89 he sang for one season as the first bassist at London's King's Theater , but did not have the same success there as on the continent. In London he sang, again alongside Storace, in La Vendemmia by Giuseppe Gazzaniga .
In 1795 he had an engagement at La Scala in Milan in operas by Giuseppe Sarti and Angelo Tarchi . In 1797 he still performed in Livorno and ended his career in Italy.
literature
- Francesco Benucci , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, CD-Rom, p. 1782
- Ada Zapperi: Francesco Benucci , in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 8, 1966
Web links
- Literature by and about Francesco Benucci in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benucci, Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian bass player and opera singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1745 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Livorno |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1824 |
| Place of death | Florence |