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Gioacchino Conti (28 February 1714 — 25 October 1761), best known as Gizziello, was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 sopranist
Sopranist

A sopranist is a male classical singer who is able to sing in the vocal tessitura of a soprano usually through the use of falsetto vocal production....
 castrato
Castrato

A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto human voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinology condition, never reaches sexual maturity....
 opera singer.

Biography
Conti was born in Arpino
Arpino

Arpino is a comune in the province of Frosinone in the region of Latium in central Italy....
. After studying in Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
 with Domenico Gizzi, whom he would later be dubbed after, he made his debut in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 at a young age, in Leonardo Vinci
Leonardo Vinci

Leonardo Vinci was an Italy musical composer, best known for his operas.He was born at Strongoli and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Music Conservatories of Naples....
's Artaserse (1730).

His career led him throughout Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 and especially to London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, where he was engaged by Händel, with whom he would build up profitable collaboration relations.






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Gioacchino Conti (28 February 1714 — 25 October 1761), best known as Gizziello, was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 sopranist
Sopranist

A sopranist is a male classical singer who is able to sing in the vocal tessitura of a soprano usually through the use of falsetto vocal production....
 castrato
Castrato

A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto human voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinology condition, never reaches sexual maturity....
 opera singer.

Biography


Conti was born in Arpino
Arpino

Arpino is a comune in the province of Frosinone in the region of Latium in central Italy....
. After studying in Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
 with Domenico Gizzi, whom he would later be dubbed after, he made his debut in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 at a young age, in Leonardo Vinci
Leonardo Vinci

Leonardo Vinci was an Italy musical composer, best known for his operas.He was born at Strongoli and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Music Conservatories of Naples....
's Artaserse (1730).

His career led him throughout Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 and especially to London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, where he was engaged by Händel, with whom he would build up profitable collaboration relations. Conti performed in many of his works, such as Atalanta
Atalanta (opera)

Atalanta is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel composed in 1736. It is based upon the Greek mythology female athlete, Atalanta, the libretto being derived from the book La Caccia in Etolia by Belisario Valeriani....
, Giustino, Berenice
Berenice (opera)

Berenice, regina d'Egitto is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italy text by Antonio Salvi originally written in Italy in 1709....
 and Arminio, as well as in a revival of Ariodante.

He executed later many first perfomances for the best famed musicians of his time, including Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli

Niccol? Jommelli was an Italy composer. He was born in Aversa and died in Naples. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he made important changes to opera and reduced the importance of star singers....
 (Manlio, 1746), Baldassare Galuppi (Artaserse, 1751) and Johann Adolf Hasse (Demetrio, 1747).

After 1759 Conti left the stage and settled in Rome, where he spent the last two years of his life.

Being a very sharp sopranist for his time (Händel got him to repeatedly reach up to C6), Conti was not quite well-disposed towards abuse of coloratura
Coloratura

Coloratura has several meanings. The word derives from the Italian colorare or colorazione .The term normally refers to a soprano who has the vocal ability to produce notes above C#6 and whose tessitura is A4-A5 or higher ....
 and he choosed rather to turn to better account his fluent and smooth style of rendering and espression: he has thus remained famous as a sentimental and gentle singer, but he also always kept, of course, a condition of absolute excellence at vocal virtuosity, even though not so acrobatic as, for instance, that of his contemporary (and friend) Farinelli
Farinelli

File:Farinelli engraving.jpgFarinelli , was the stage name of Carlo Maria Broschi, one of the most famous Italy contralto and soprano castrato singers of the 18th century....
.

Sources

  • Rodolfo Celletti, Storia del belcanto, Discanto Edizioni, Fiesole, 1983, pp. 105-106, 125
  • Salvatore Caruselli (a cura di), Grande enciclopedia della musica lirica, Longanesi &C. Periodici S.p.A., Roma, ad nomen