Felice Salimbeni (c. 1712 - 16 October 1755) was an Italian

castrato A castrato (Italian, plural: ''castrati'') is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty, or it occurs in one who, due to ...

opera singer. Born in Milan, his singing teachers included Nicola Antonio Porpora and

Christoph Schaffrath Christoph Schaffrath (1709 in Hohnstein 7 February 1763 in Berlin) was a German musician and composer of the late Baroque to Classical transition era. Career Schaffrath was born in Hohnstein. He applied to be organist at the Sophienkirche in D ...

. He sang in venues in Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Dresden, singing the title parts in operas by Porpora and Antonio Caldara. He died in 1755 in the

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n town of Vrhnika, then part of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salimbeni, Felice Singers from Milan Castrati 18th-century Italian male opera singers 1712 births 1755 deaths