Matteo Sassano
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thumb| Matteo Sassano, called Matteuccio (1667 - 15 October 1737), was a famous Italian castrato, also called "the nightingale of Naples" (il rosignuolo di Napoli) because of his extremely beautiful soprano voice and virtuoso singing.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Matteo
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- San Severo
- Place of death
- Naples
- Occupation
- opera singer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Anonimo-matteo sassano.jpg
- Voice type
- castrato
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- date of birth
- 1667-01-01
- date of death
- 1737-10-15
- Commons category
- Matteo Sassano
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Life
- Childhood and youth
- In Madrid and Vienna
- Back in Naples
- References
- Further reading
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thumb| Matteo Sassano, called Matteuccio (1667 - 15 October 1737), was a famous Italian castrato, also called "the nightingale of Naples" (il rosignuolo di Napoli) because of his extremely beautiful soprano voice and virtuoso singing.
== Life == === Childhood and youth === Born in San Severo, Kingdom of Naples, Sassano was the son of the widow Livia Tommasino and Giuseppe Sassano. Nothing is known about his early childhood. A barber from his hometown, who presumably performed the fateful orchiectomy procedure, had contacts in Naples with one Alessandro de Liguoro, a barber with a shop near the palazzo of the Apostolic Nuncio on Via Toledo; the latter picked up little Matteo, took him in, looked after him and subsequently became a confidant for the singer. Alessandro also ensured that the nine-year-old Matteo could enter the . There, for the next 10 years, he received perfect musical and vocal training under the direction of Giovanni Salvatore and Donato Oliva.
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