Giusto Fernando Tenducci (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Giusto Fernando Tenducci (ca. 1736 - 25 January 1790) was a soprano (castrato) opera singer and composer, who passed his career partly in Italy but chiefly in Britain. 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 Guinevere.