Aguillar, Antonia Girelli

“presently [1790] one of our most famous Italian singers”: G. Mancini, Pensieri. (Gerber, vol. I, p. 19)

Agujari, Lucrezia

Born 1743; died in Parma, 1783. Lucrezia Agujari,called La Bastardella or La Bastardina,was an Italian soprano,celebra ted for her high notes. She first appeared at Florence in 1764. She married Colla,an esteemed composer,and sang in London for some years at the Pantheon, where she was at one time engaged at the enormous salary of 100 lira per night for singing only two songs. Agujari was a truly wonderful performer. She had two octaves of fair natural voice, from a to” and in early youth she had more than another octave higher. Sacchini said he had heard her go up to B♭ in altissimo. (Blom, p. 311; Heriot, p. 50; Sainsbury, vol. I, p. 10)

Amadori, Giovanni Tedeschi [Tedeschi Giovanni,called Amadori]

Singer; born in Bologna c. 1720, where he studied in the class of the renowned Bernacchi. He was in the service of the Capella Reale of Naples and for a few years participated in important opera theaters in Italy (Florence, [Teatro] Pergola; Naples, San Carlo, 1748; Genoa, Falcone, 1750–51; Milan, Ducale, 1751, 1753–54). In 1754–55 he was employed at the Royal Theater in Berlin, where he was among the first performers in Graun's Semiramide and sang in many other operas. Upon returning to Italy, he settled in Rome where he founded an excellent school of singing, living there until c. 1780. (Schmidl, vol. II, p. 584)