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Identifier: programme1920bost (find matches)
Title: Programme
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Subjects: Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert programs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Boston Symphony Orchestra
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Symphony Orchestra

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us male soprano, was bornat Bari, Naples, April 16, 1703. He died November 30, 1783, veryrich, having purchased a dukedom and built at Santo Dorato apalace, over the gate of which he had inscribed, Amphion Thebas,Ego domum. He studied at Naples under Porpora, and madeMs d^but at Rome in 1724 (or 1726). While he was in London in1738 he was not in good health or voice. His great fame came later.David Garrick, hearing him at Naples in 1764, was more pleased byhim than by all th^ other singers he had heard. He touched me;.and it was the first time I have been touched since I came intoItaly. Dr. Burney heard him in 1770 in a room at Naples. Hewas then sixty-seven; yet, though his voice was thin, it was easyto imagine from what he was still able to do, that his voice and Hur\?^itch Bros. Present tlie latest Imported, and. Original models in Tailorea Suits GoAvns Manteaux Riding Hatits 344 Boylston Street Le^ PAINTING AND DECORATING 101 TREMONT STREETTELEPHONE. MAIN 4335 ROOM 211, BOSTON 464
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455 talents had been of the very first class. Many stories are told ofCaffarellis incredible pride and presumption. At the time Handel wrote Serse he was sore distressed. It issaid that the many erasures in the manuscript bear witness tothe agitations which tormented the mind of the composer. Forthe last year he had suffered from rheumatism. He had an attack ofparalysis and took the waters of Aix-la-Chapelle for six weeks, re-turning early in November, 1737, ^greatly recovered in health, aswas stated by the London Daily Post, But he was still a convales-cent, and as an opera manager he had debts to pay. Queen Caroline,the wife of George II., died, and the king commanded an anthemfor the funeral. Then came Faramondo, the pasticcio of Ales-sandro Severo and Serse. Handels partnership with Heidegger, principal lessee of theHaymarket Theatre, came to an end with the season 1734. Handelthen took alone the theatre in Lincolns Inn Fields and became animpresario. The nobility was offended by

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