Senesino
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thumb|Senesino c. 1720 right|thumb|Senesino in 1735, by Van Haecken after Hudson thumb|Portrait of the contralto castrato Francesco Bernardi, better known under his stage name Senesino; at the same time a parody of the castrati and their singing – and the wealth they earned with it. The lines beneath the portrait read, in Italian and English: "Renown'd Sienna gave him birth and name / Kind Heaven his Voice and Harmony his Fame / While here the Great and Fair their Tribute bring / The Deaf may wonder whence his Merits spring / But all think Fortune just, that hear him sing".
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Senesino, born Francesco Bernardi in 1686, was an Italian opera singer and stage actor. A male contralto, he was a citizen of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and spoke Italian. His musical career focused on the opera genre, utilizing his voice as his primary instrument.
He died in Siena on November 27, 1758. He was born in the same city, which is located in Italy. He is also known by the name Senesino.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1686 births, 1758 deaths and 18th-century Italian male actors.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesco
- Family name
- Bernardi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- Place of birth
- Siena
- Place of death
- Siena
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Francesco Bernardi detto il Senesino (Fitzwilliam Object no. P.10512-R).jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- Commons category
- Senesino
- date of birth
- 1686-10-31
- date of death
- 1758-11-27
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- Senesino
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7 sectionsContents
- Early life and career
- Senesino and Handel
- Senesino and scandal with Anastasia Robinson
- Return to Italy and retirement
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Senesino c. 1720 right|thumb|Senesino in 1735, by Van Haecken after Hudson thumb|Portrait of the contralto castrato Francesco Bernardi, better known under his stage name Senesino; at the same time a parody of the castrati and their singing – and the wealth they earned with it. The lines beneath the portrait read, in Italian and English: "Renown'd Sienna gave him birth and name / Kind Heaven his Voice and Harmony his Fame / While here the Great and Fair their Tribute bring / The Deaf may wonder whence his Merits spring / But all think Fortune just, that hear him sing".
Francesco Bernardi (; 31 October 1686 – 27 November 1758), known as Senesino ( or traditionally ), was an Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel. He was also involved in a public scandal with the soprano Anastasia Robinson in 1724, which was circulated widely by the satirist Jonathan Swift, and inspired a number of anonymously-written obscene, misogynistic, and at times sexually subversive epistles written between 1724 and 1736 which have become a topic of study among scholars of Restoration literature.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Senesino” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.