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Farinelli's Progress to Albion: The Recruitment and Reception of Opera's 'Blazing Star'
The 'Milordi' in Italy
With no Farinelli in London, English opera-lovers had to travel to Italy to hear him. Colonel Burges seems not to have had sufficient official business to report back to London, so his letters are filled out with news of the comings and goings of the English Milordi through Venice on their Grand Tours. One of their consuming passions was to see as much Italian opera -and Farinelli -as possible. 13 The dispatches of Colonel Burges and the letters and account books of the English travellers give us a sense of how many Englishmen saw Farinelli and how the Milordi made special plans to follow him from opera house to opera house. These admirers and patrons befriended Farinelli, overcame his reluctance to travel to England, helped with his journey and saw to it that he received hospitality and patronage in London.
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Who is Farinelli?
Farinelli (January 24, 1705 – September 16, 1782), whose real name was Carlo Broschi, was one of the most famous Italian soprano castrato singers of the 18th century.
Early years
Broschi was born in Andria (now in the Italian region of Puglia) into a family of musicians. His father Salvatore was also governor of Maratea and Cisternino from 1706 to 1709. Broschi was castrated as a boy to preserve his young voice into adulthood.
As was often the case, an excuse had to be found for this always illegal operation, and in Carlo's case it was said to have been necessitated by a fall from a horse. In 1711, Carlo's family moved to Naples, where the young singer later studied with the famous composer and singing-teacher Nicola Porpora. He made his public debut in 1720 in Porpora's Angelica e Medoro, and soon became famous throughout Italy as il ragazzo ("the boy"; the origin of his stage name of Farinelli is unclear, though a possible explanation is that three rich Neapolitan music-loving brothers by name Farina sponsored Carlo in his studies).
In 1722 he made his first appearance at Rome in his master's Eumene and was received with enormous enthusiasm. From