Luigi Marchesi (singer)

Luigi Schiavonetti : Luigi Marchesi (1790)

Heinrich Eduard Winter : Luigi Marchesi (1816)

Luigi Marchesi , also Lodovico Marchesi and Luigi Marchesini (born August 8, 1754 in Milan ; died December 14, 1829 in Inzago ) was an Italian opera singer ( soprano ) and castrato .

Life

Luigi Marchesi's father was a trombonist and gave him his first music lessons. He received vocal training from the castrato Caironi in Modena , from Giovanni Andrea Fioroni in Milan and from Albuzzi in Milan. He first sang in the Milan Cathedral Choir . In 1773 he made his debut on the stage of the Teatro delle Dame in Rome in the opera L'incognita perseguitata by Pasquale Anfossi and gave a guest performance in Genoa that same year . In 1775 he sang in Venice , in the two following years in the Munich court orchestra , then in Milan and also at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples . In 1779 he sang in Florence in Francesco Bianchi's opera Castore e Polluce and in Giuseppe Sarti's Achille in Sciro and in it his brilliant number Mia speranza, io pur vorrei . He sang the world premiere of the opera Armida by Josef Mysliveček at La Scala in Milan .

In 1782 he sang in Turin in the opera Il trionfo della pace by Bianchi, whereupon he was appointed court singer of the King of Sardinia , in 1784 at the Teatro Regio in Domenico Cimarosa's version of the Artaserse , in 1785 in Achille in Sciro by Gaetano Pugnani . In 1785 he sang at the Vienna Court Opera in Sarti Le gelosie villane and Giulio Sabino . With Sarti and the prima donna Luisa Todi he made a tour of Russia from 1786 to 1788, while in Vienna he was imitated on stage by Nancy Storace in Antonio Salieri's fun Prima la musica e poi le parole . In 1788 he came to London and sang in Sartis Giulio Sabino , among others , the critic Richard Edgcumbe was full of praise.

In 1788 he sang in Cimarosa's opera Olimpiade at La Scala in Milan , and in 1794 he took part in the world premiere of the opera Demofoonte by Marcos António Portugal . In 1801 he sang in the world premiere of Simone Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia in the newly built Teatro Nuovo in Trieste and in 1805 at La Scala in Milan in the world premiere of Mayr's Eraldo ed Emma . Around 1806 he ended his stage career in Milan.

Marchesi was also active as a composer and published several songs and arias.

Arias for Luigi Marchesi , Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Ensemble Stile Galante, Stefano Aresi (with Francesca Cassinari - soprano), Glossa, 2015

Marchesi, Luigi , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, pp. 15389–15392
Daniel Brandenburg: Marchesi, Luigi. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 , Sp. 1048-1049 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Achille Maccapani: Confessioni di un evirato cantore . Genoa: Frilli, 2009 ISBN 978-8875634933
Stefano Aresi: “In note velocissime”: vita e arte di Luigi Marchesi, musico soprano (1754–1829) . Livorno: Sillabe, 2016 ISBN 978-88-8347-899-4

^ Gustav Gugitz (ed.): Memories of the Venetian Lorenzo da Ponte . Volume 1. Aretz, Dresden 1924, p. 393

personal data
SURNAME	Marchesi, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marchesi, Lodovico; Marchesini, Luigi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian opera singer (soprano) and castrato
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milan
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 1829
Place of death	Inzago