Giuseppe Millico [SEP] voice type
Giuseppe Millico
Vito Giuseppe Millico, called ""Il Moscovita"" (19 January 1737 – 2 October 1802), was an Italian soprano castrato, composer, and music teacher of the 18th century who is best remembered for his performances in the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Biography.
Millico was born at Terlizzi, near Bari. In 1754, he came to Naples. In 1757 in Rome, he had his first performance as a singer. From 1758 to 1765, he worked in Russia, and
the great castrati of the time, Giuseppe Millico, who, on his return in Italy, sponsored a second setting of the same libretto, by Giovanni Paisiello, in Florence in 1775.
Sacchini moved from London to Paris in 1781, and made his debut at the Opéra in January 1783 with "Renaud". For his second French opera, he decided to return to the subject of the Cid, this time with a new libretto, entitled "Chimène", prepared for him by the man who was to become