Giuseppe Aprile
Giuseppe Aprile (28 October 1731 – 11 January 1813) was an Italian castrato singer and music teacher. He was also known as 'Sciroletto' or 'Scirolino'.
Aprile was born in Martina Franca. After studying with , composer and singing instructor, in Naples, he began his singing career in 1752 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He then began a great career, performing in prominent theatres throughout Italy, Germany, and even Madrid. His voice could reach E5. He withdrew from the stage in 1785 and became a singing instructor in Naples. Domenico Cimarosa, Michael Kelly and Emma, Lady Hamilton were among his pupils. See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#Giuseppe Aprile. He wrote a popular book on singing instruction, The Italian Method of Singing, with 36 Solfeggi (1791).
Operatic roles[]
- Euribate in Ifigenia in Aulide by Niccolò Jommelli and Tommaso Traetta (Naples, 1752)
- Edelberto in Ricimero re de' Goti by Baldassare Galuppi (Naples, 1753)
- Publio Cornelio Scipione in Livia Claudia Vestale by Niccolò Conforto (Rome, 1755)
- Pompeo in Pompeo magno in Armenia by Francesco Saverio Garzia (Rome, 1755)
- Cesare in Catone in Utica by Francesco Poncini (Parma, 1756)
- Giasone in Issipile by Baldassare Galuppi (Parma, 1756)
- Demetrio in the anonymous Antigono (Lucca, 1756)
- Timante in Demofoonte by Antonio Gaetano Pampani (Rome, 1757)
- Ezio in Ezio by Tommaso Traetta (Rome, 1757)
- Aminta in Il re pastore by Antonio Mazzoni (Bologna, 1757)
- Linceo in the anonymous Ipermestra (Venice, 1757)
- Enea in Didone abbandonata by Tommaso Traetta (Venice, 1757)
- Ciro in Ciro riconosciuto by Niccolò Jommelli (Mantua, 1758)
- Timante in Demofoonte by Tommaso Traetta (Mantua, 1758)
- Sesto in La clemenza di Tito by Giuseppe Scarlatti (Venice, 1760)
- Cosrovio in Gianguir by Vincenzo Ciampi (Venice, 1760)
- Castore in I tindaridi by Tommaso Traetta (Parma, 1760)
- Alceste in Demetrio by Baldassare Galuppi (Padua, 1761)
- Tiridate in Zenobia by Giovanni Battista Pescetti (Padua, 1761)
- Megacle in L'Olimpiade of Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1761)
- Alceste in Demetrio by Giuseppe Ponzo (Turin, 1762)
- Achille in Ifigenia in Aulide by Ferdinando Bertoni (Turin, 1762)
- Enea in Didone abbadonata by Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1763)
- Timante in Demofoonte by Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1764)
- Motezuma in Motezuma by Gian Francesco de Majo (Turin, 1765)
- Megacle in L'Olimpiade by Johann Adolf Hasse (Turin, 1765)
- Aminta in Il re pastore by Niccolò Piccinni (Naples, 1765)
- Euriso in Creso by Antonio Sacchini (Naples, 1765)
- Teseo in the pasticcio Arianna e Teseo (Palermo, 1766)
- Fetonte in Fetonte by Niccolò Jommelli (Stuttgart, 1768)
- Gandarte in Nicoraste by Antonio Sacchini (Venice, 1769)
- Giulio Cesare in Cesare in Egitto by Niccolò Piccinni (Milan, 1770)
- Enea in Didone abbandonata by Ignazio Celoniat (Milan, 1770)
- Rinaldo in Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli (Naples, 1770; Florence, 1775)
- Demetrio in Antigono by Pasquale Cafaro (Naples, 1770)
- Timante in Demofoonte by Niccolò Jommelli (Naples, 1770)
- Eumene in Eumene by Gian Francesco de Majo (Naples, 1771)
- Perseo in Andromeda by Giuseppe Colla (Turin, 1772)
- Maometto in Tamas Kouli-Kan nell'Indie by Gaetano Pugnani (Turin, 1772)
- Sesto in La clemenza di Tito by Pasquale Anfossi (Naples, 1772)
- Achille in Achille in Sciro by Antonio Amicone (Naples, 1772)
- Titano in Cerere placata by Niccolò Jommelli (Naples, 1772)
- Linceo in Ipermestra by Niccolò Piccinni (Naples, 1772)
- Teseo in Arianna e Teseo by Giacomo Insanguine (Naples, 1773)
- Alceste in the pasticcio Demetrio (Florence, 1774)
- Maometto in Tamas Kouli-Kan nell'Indie by Pietro Guglielmi (Florence, 1774)
- Vologeso in Vologeso re de' Parti by Giovanni Marco Rutini (Florence, 1775)
- Marco Antonio in Cleopatra by Carlo Monza (Turin, 1776)
- Sicotenal in Sicotenal by Giovanni Marco Rutini (Turin, 1776)
- Telemaco in Calipso by Bernardino Ottani (Turin, 1777)
- Gengis-Kan in Gengis-Kan by Pasquale Anfossi (Turin, 1777)
- Euriso in Creso re di Lidia by Giovanni Battista Borghi (Florence, 1777)
- Enea in Enea nel Lazio by Antonio Burroni (Rome, 1778)
- Megacle in L'Olimpiade by Pasquale Anfossi (Rome, Perugia, and Treviso, 1778)
- Arsace in Medonte, re di Epiro by Giuseppe Sarti (Perugia, 1778; Florence, 1779)
- Cleomene in Erifile by Francesco Bianchi (Florence, 1779)
- Selimo in the pasticcio Il Solimano (Florence, 1779)
- Tarsile in La Calliroe by Josef Mysliveček (Pisa, 1779)
- Annio in the pasticcio Cajo Mario (Pisa, 1779)
- Annio in Cajo Mario by Domenico Cimarosa (Rome, 1780)
- Tito in Tito nelle Gallie by Pasquale Anfossi (Rome, 1780)
Source: Claudio Sartori. I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800. Cuneo, 1992-1994.
References[]
- Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. (1958). "Aprile, Giuseppe". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (5th ed.). p. 41.
External links[]
- 1731 births
- 1813 deaths
- Castrati
- People from Martina Franca
- 18th-century Italian opera singers
- Voice teachers