Rosa Scarlatti (1727– 15 December 1775) was an Italian

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. She was the niece of

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Domenico Scarlatti Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti (26 October 1685-23 July 1757), was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the deve ...

and the sister of composer

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(1723-1777). She married composer

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in 1753, and became the mother of the

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Carlo Uttini Carlo Uttini (1753-1808), was a Swedish ballet dancer. He was regarded as one of the elite members of the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1773-1804, and was also active as singer of the Royal Swedish Opera (1776–79) and as an actor at the French Theat ...

. Rosa Scarlatti was active as an opera singer in Florence in 1747. In 1752-53 and again in 1755–57, she was engaged in the Italian Opera company at the Swedish royal court. She also performed at Public

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s at the Swedish House of Lords. After the Italian Opera company was dissolved, she served as a concert singer at the royal court: she was still paid salary in the capacity of a court singer in 1772, though by this time she was no longer deemed suitable to serve.

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120227151329/http://www.riddarhuset.se/jsp/admin/archive/sbdocarchive/Vetenskap_%20Konst.pdf (In Swedish) * Gunhild Karle (2002). Kungl. Hovmusiken i Stockholm och dess utövare 1697–1771. Uppsala: TryckJouren. * Eleanor Selfridge-Field: A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 * Fredrik August Dahlgren: Förteckning öfver svenska skådespel uppförda på Stockholms theatrar 1737-1863 och Kongl. Theatrarnes personal 1773–1863. Med flera anteckningar. sid 50-51 1727 births 1775 deaths Italian opera singers 18th-century Italian people Age of Liberty people Italian emigrants to Sweden {{italy-opera-singer-stub