Faustina Bordoni [SEP] voice type
Faustina Bordoni
Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano.
In Hamburg, Germany, the Johann Adolph Hasse Museum is dedicated to her husband and partly to Bordoni.
Early career.
She was born in Venice and brought up under the protection of the aristocratic brother composers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello. Her singing teacher was another composer, Michelangelo Gasparini. For many years in the service of the Elector Palatine, she made her operatic debut at Venice in 1716 in Carlo
elector's taste for the operatic genre was no secret either. For church music the Neapolitan mass came closest to that genre, so this was the preferred Mass type at the Hofkirche. Bach was no doubt aware that apart from the excellent instrumentalists, the Dresden Hofkapelle ("court chapel") also had vocal soloists at its disposition (such as Faustina Bordoni, the wife of Johann Adolph Hasse) who could excel in the type of arias that was customary in operas and Neapolitan masses.
The score Bach sent to Dresden