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Giusto Fernando Tenducci, sometimes called "il Senesino"〔Not to be confused with Francesco Bernardi, "Senesino" par excellence.〕 (ca. 1736 – 25 January 1790), was a soprano (castrato) opera singer and composer, who passed his career partly in Italy but chiefly in Britain. ==Biography== Born in Siena in about 1736, Tenducci became a castrato, and he was trained at the Naples Conservatory. Castration was illegal in both Church and civil law, but the Roman Church employed castrati in many churches and in the Vatican until about 1902; and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries the public paid large sums of money to listen to the spectacular voices of castrati in the opera houses. In 1753, when he was about seventeen, Tenducci made his professional opera debut in Venice, as Gasparo in Ferdinando Bertoni's ''Ginevra''. In 1757 and 1758 he was active at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. From 1758 to 1765 he was in London, where he was heard at both the King's Theatre and the Royal Opera House. He then sang in Ireland, Scotland and Italy. In 1765 in Dublin he met Dorothea Maunsell, whom he married in 1766. In 1768 he returned to London from Edinburgh, where he remained for almost the rest of his life. He taught singing to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Paris in 1777-1778. Impressed with his teacher's singing abilities, Mozart wrote a concert aria for him which is now lost (K. 315b). He returned to Italy just months before his death in January 1790 in Genoa.〔 (Giusto Fernando Tenducci at operissimo.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giusto Fernando Tenducci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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