Margarita Salicola [SEP] occupation
Margarita Salicola
Margarita Salicola ("floruit" 1682 – 1706) was a famous opera singer of her time. She came from a family of musicians at the court of the Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and became a staple of casts at San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice's newest and most famous theater, in the 1680s. The earliest work with which she can be linked is Pietro Simone Agostini's "Il ratto delle sabine" ("The Rape of the Sabine Women"). She was especially praised for
she quickly won fame in Dresden, but she traveled back to Italy often and continued to perform into the early eighteenth century. Despite the many works in which she appeared, "Penelope" remained the one for which she was best remembered.
References.
- Eleanor Selfridge-Field. "The New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760". Stanford University Press 2007.
External links.
- Margarita Salicola on www.haendel.it