Amorevoli, Angelo (Maria)
Amorevoli, Angelo (Maria)
Amorevoli, Angelo (Maria), Italian tenor; b. Venice, Sept. 16, 1716; d. Dresden, Nov. 15, 1798. He first made a name for himself in 1730 when he appeared in Porpora’s Mitridate and Siface in Rome, and in Hasse’s Dalisca in Venice. After singing in Milan (1731–35), Naples (1736–40), and Florence (1741), he appeared at the King’s Theatre in London (1741–43). In 1744-45 he sang in Milan, and then was engaged to sing in Hasse’s works in Dresden from 1745. He also appeared in Vienna in 1748 and again in Milan in 1748-49 and 1760-61. He retired in 1764.
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