Vincenzo Calvesi
(b Rome ; fl. 1777 – 1811 ), mezzo carattere, Il re Teodoro, Una cosa rara
Italian tenor.
His first known appearance was in Rome in 1777.
He sang in comic opera in Italy until 1782, specializing in mezzo carattere roles.
From 1782 to 1783 he sang in Dresden, and in 1785 he settled in Vienna, making his début there as Sandrino in Giovanni Paisiello's Il re Teodoro.
Except for a year's leave of absence in 1788 , which he spent mainly in Naples, he remained in Vienna until 1794.
A versatile lyric tenor, he created leading roles in operas by Vicente Martín y Soler (Una cosa rara and L’arbore di Diana), Stephen Storace (Gli sposi malcontenti and Gli equivoci) and Antonio Salieri (La grotta di Trofonio and Axur, re d’Ormus), as well as Ferrando in W. A. Mozart's Così fan tutte.
Un'aura amorosa
de nostro tesoro
un dolce ristoro
al cor porgera
al cor che nudrito
di speme d'amore
d'un'esca migliore
bisogno non ha.
In 1785 he sang the Count in the quartet ‘Dite almeno, in che mancai’ k479 and the trio ‘Mandina amabile’ k480 written by Mozart for Francesco Bianchi's La villanella rapita.
He was described in Grundsätze zur Theaterkritik ( 1790 ) as ‘one of the best tenors from Italy…with a voice naturally sweet, pleasant and sonorous’.
On his retirement from the stage in 1794 Calvesi returned to Rome, where he became one of the city's leading impresarios ( c 1796 – 1811 ).
Vincenzo's wife, Teresa, sang small roles in Vienna from 1785 to about 1789 , when she left on her own to pursue her career in London and Italy. A Giuseppe Calvesi is known to have been active 1784 – 91 ; he, and not Vincenzo, sang in London in 1787 and 1788 .
Bibliography and More Information about Vincenzo Calvesi
Dorotea Link : The National Court Theatre in Mozart's Vienna: Sources and Documents 1783–1792 (Oxford, 1998)
•J. A. Rice:
Antonio Salieri and the Viennese Opera (Chicago, 1998)
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