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Gaetano Ricciolini (27 August 1778, Florence – 9 October 1845, Rio de Janeiro) was an Italian 
Gaetano and Isabel Ricciolini settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1817 as members of the Italian opera company of the São João Royal Theater, where they performed the Brazilian premières of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's “
bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing thr ...
and a choreographer who helped introduce opera and dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...
in South America.
Ricciolini started his operatic career in Florence in the late 18th century. He moved to Portugal in 1805 as a soloist of the São Carlos National Theater, in Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
. There he met his wife, the Spanish-Portuguese soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...
Isabel Rubio Ricciolini.
Gaetano and Isabel Ricciolini settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1817 as members of the Italian opera company of the São João Royal Theater, where they performed the Brazilian premières of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's “Don Giovanni
''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...
” and Gioacchino Rossini's " Il Barbiere di Siviglia”.
After a fire destroyed the São João Theatre in 1824, Ricciolini moved to Buenos Aires and introduced opera and ballet in Argentina. Back to Brazil in 1830, Ricciolini died as a music and dance teacher in Rio de Janeiro.
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