Portuguese Opera Singers - Lu Sa Todi, Sara Braga Simoes, Elisabete Matos, Maurizio Bensaude, Ines Thomas Almeida, Costa Campos, Jennifer Smith (Paperback)

Chapters: Lu sa Todi, Sara Braga Simoes, Elisabete Matos, Maurizio Bensaude, Ines Thomas Almeida, Costa Campos, Jennifer Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lu sa Rosa de Aguiar Todi (1753 - 1833) was a popular and successful Portuguese mezzo-soprano opera singer. Lu sa Todi was born Lu sa Rosa de Aguiar on January 9, 1753 in Set bal, Portugal. In 1765, her family moved to Lisbon, where her father was a musical writer in the Theatre of Bairro Alto. Lu sa began her career as an actress in 1767 or 1768 in Moli re's play Tartuffe. She met Francesco Saverio Todi, an Italian violinist, whom she married in 1769. After their marriage, on her husband's advice, she began having singing lessons with David Perez, an Italian composer and Music Master of the Portuguese Royal Chapel. In 1770, she began her career as a singer with Giuseppe Scolari's opera Il Viaggiatore Ridicolo, in the Theatre of Bairro Alto. From 1772 to 1777, Lu sa lived in Oporto, where she was a singer and a singing teacher and where she began to be recognized as an artist of stature. In the winter of 1777, at age 24, she gave her first performance abroad, at the King's Theatre in London. The enthusiastic critics said that "Mrs. Lu sa Todi possesses high merit as singer and as actress." In 1778 she sang at the famous Concerts Spirituels in Paris, winning a triumph and being considered the best foreign singer ever featured in France. She remained in France until 1780; then from 1780 to 1783, she sang at the Teatro Reggio in Turin and gave performances in Germany and Austria in 1781. She returned to Paris for further Concerts Spirituels series, during which time a confrontation arose between Lu sa Todi and the German soprano Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749 - 1833), which divided the publi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=121492