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and others, a pasticcio given by

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, in which Antinori took the place of Borosini, who sang in it at first. In the season of 1726 he appeared in Handel's ''Scipione'' and ''

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''. After that season, he returned to Italy. He sang in Venice (1726 in

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’s ''Imeneo in Atene,'' and again 1731), Livorno (1725, 1730–31), Turin (1728),

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(1728, 1732), Mantua (1729), and Reggio nell’Emilia (1732). In the 1733/34 season he performed at the

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, Florence in operas by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and

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. In a letter dated 6 March 1734, the impresario of the Pergola, Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, gives a record of Antinori's recent death.

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* 1697 births 1734 deaths Italian operatic tenors 18th-century Italian male opera singers Musicians from Bologna {{Italy-singer-stub