Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, who performed under the stage name Farinelli, was a celebrated Italian castrato singer, composer, and musician. He was a soprano with a range from approximatel
Portrait of Farinelli by Bartolomeo Nazari (1734)
Farinelli, by Wagner after Amigoni 1735
Allegorical portrait of Farinelli by Jacopo Amigoni, showing him being crowned by the Muse of Music.
Farinelli and his friends. 1750–1752. Oil on canvas, by Amigoni. depicted from left to right: Metastasio, Teresa Castellini, Farinelli with the score "Vi conosco amate stelle" from Metastasio's Zenobia in a musical setting, the painter Amigoni, Farinelli's dog, Farinelli's page
Farinelli is a 1994 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Gérard Corbiau and starring Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, and Jeroen Krabbé. It centers on the
Farinelli
…Farinelli is represented in Voltaire's Candide. A film, Farinelli, directed by Gérard Corbiau, was made about Farinelli's life in 1994. This takes considerable dramatic licence with history, emphasising the importance…
Theatrical release poster