Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace.

In February 1684 he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy of Naples, perhaps through the influence of his sister, an opera singer, who might have been the mistress of an influential Neapolitan noble.

They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.

He became a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella.

* Mozart and Salieri are known to have composed together a cantata for voice and piano called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia which was celebrating the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace, and which has been lost, although it had been printed by Artaria in 1785.

The Italian composer and singer Franco Battiato was sometime inspired by Gurdjieff's work, for example in his song " Centro di gravità permanente "-one of most popular modern Italian pop songs.

* October 3 – Eduardo di Capua, singer and songwriter ( b. 1865 )

Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò (; 15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967 ) or as Antonio De Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata (" the prince of laughter "), was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter.

The physician, Giovanni Camillo Maffei, in his book Discorso della voce e del modo d ' apparare di cantar di garganta in 1562, explained that when a bass singer sang in the soprano range, the voice was called " falsetto ".

An early influence on bossa nova was the song " Dans mon île " by French singer Henri Salvador, featured in the 1957 Italian movie Europa di notte by Alessandro Blasetti ; the song was distributed in Brazil and covered later by Brazilian artists Eumir Deodato ( Los Danseros en Bolero-1964 ) and Caetano Veloso ( Outras Palavras-1981 ).

Francesca Gregorini ( Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna, born in Rome, Italy, August 7, 1968 ) is an Italian-American singer and songwriter.

Since retiring from the stage as a singer in 2002, she has turned successfully into directing opera as well as teaching in Italy and America, along with academic posts at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Juilliard School in New York.

( Italians call this rare type of singer a " tenore robusto " or " tenore di forza ".

Lotti made his career at St Mark's, first as an alto singer ( from 1689 ), then as assistant to the second organist, then as second organist ( from 1692 ), then ( from 1704 ) as first organist, and finally ( from 1736 ) as maestro di cappella, a position he held until his death.

Eduardo di Capua ( March 12, 1865October 3, 1917 ) was an Italian singer and songwriter.

Giovanni Capurro ( February 5, 1859 – January 18, 1920 ) was an Italian poet, best remembered today as the co-creator, with singer / composer Eduardo di Capua, of the world famous song, "' O Sole Mio ".

In 1934, for unclear reasons, di Sarli left the orchestra and moved to Rosario in Santa Fe province where he joined a small band with the bandoneón player Juan Cambareri, the violin player Alberto Saikievich and the singer Roberto Pieri.

As an opera singer she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was particularly associated with the title roles in Lakmé and Lucia di Lammermoor.

Ema Pukšec ( February 6, 1834-January 14, 1889 ), also known as Ilma de Murska, as well as Ilma di Murska, was a famous 19th century soprano opera singer from Croatia.

The lady explains he has a resemblance to the singer Vitalo Pedrotti from the Scala di Milano who is disparated.

Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo ( January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934 ), known as Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune " You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love ", his compositions " Prisoner of Love " and " Too Beautiful For Words ", and the legend surrounding his early death.

* Alan Blyth Obituary: Opera singer Giuseppe di Stefano, 1921 – 2008 The Guardian 3 March 2008

Despite this, the music video prompted a lawsuit from Stefano Salvati who claimed that the video copied the concept of his music video for " Non è Mai Stato Subito ", the 1994 single of Italian singer Biagio Antonacci.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

The film, which also starred cabaret singer Astrid Hadad and model / actress Claudia Ramírez — with whom Cuarón was linked between 1989 and 1993 — was a big hit in Mexico.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

During the 1980s, Grant was also a backup singer for Bill Gaither.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

* Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes, was born there

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

Zeca Afonso was a singer and composer.

Bede was a teacher as well as a writer ; he enjoyed music, and was said to be accomplished as a singer and as a reciter of poetry in the vernacular.

The lead singer of Splash was former Tight Fit singer Steve Grant.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

Although critics admired Brooks for taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally bewildered, or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything but a pop-country singer.

In the 1980s, Selby made the acquaintance of punk rock singer Henry Rollins, who had long admired Selby's works and publicly championed them.

Presley had admired James Dean and when the singer arrived in Hollywood he was encouraged by studio executives to be seen with some of the " hip " new young actors there.

He was most admired, though, as a singer of Schubert Lieder, particularly the cycle Winterreise.

Perhaps most admired as a singer of Schubert Lieder, Fischer-Dieskau had, according to critic Joachim Kaiser, only one really serious competitor-himself, as over the decades he set new standards, explored new territories and expressed unanticipated feelings and emotions.

Susannah McCorkle ( January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001 ) was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.

Faron was named for country music singer Faron Young, whom Schulz " admired very much ," but he only made a few appearances in the strip.

He was much admired as song singer and he recorded more than 200 Russian songs by Mussorgsky ( he was the first to record all his 63 songs ), Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Borodin, Cui, Balakirev as well as traditional songs.

She was an admired recitalist and concert singer throughout her career.

Son of Alfonso de Cantalapiedra and María Sánchez, he was at the service of the cathedral ; he defeated his admired Juan del Encina in the oppositions to singer of the Cathedral of Salamanca ( 1498 ); to it alluded Encina in his Égloga of the great rains.

Au Pays de Zom is a scathingly funny satire on the businessman ethos in the unexpected form of a musical, in which Joseph Rouleau, an opera singer greatly admired by Groulx, plays the role not of a romantic hero but of a financier.

On the concert stage, he was a much admired Bach singer and also drew acclaim for his interpretation of the title character of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah.

As the lead singer, el Negro ( The dark one ), as his friends called him, not only was an instant success because of his distinctive voice, but also became very admired as a talented composer.

She was an admired concert singer.