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Margarita Salicola (floruit 1682 – 1706) was a famous opera singer of her time. She came from a family of musicians at the court of the Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and became a staple of casts at San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice's newest and most famous theater, in the 1680s. The earliest work with which she can be linked is Pietro Simone Agostini [Wikidata]'s Il ratto delle Sabine (The Rape of the Sabine Women). She was especially praised for her appearance in the title role of Carlo Pallavicino's Penelope la casta (The Chaste Penelope) in the winter of 1685. The Saxon elector Johann Georg III, in whose court Pallavicino already served, was so thrilled by her performance that he became intent to taking her and two castrati from the same cast into this service. After a staged "kidnapping," Salicola was escorted en route to Dresden by a Mantuan agent.

As a "dame of honor" in the Saxon court, she quickly won fame in Dresden, but she traveled back to Italy often and continued to perform into the early eighteenth century. Despite the many works in which she appeared, Penelope remained the one for which she was best remembered.

References

• Eleanor Selfridge-Field. The New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760. Stanford University Press 2007. ISBN 978-0-8047-4437-9

External links

• Margarita Salicola on www.haendel.it (in Italian)

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Margarita Salicola (floruit 1682 - 1706) fue una famosa cantante de ópera italiana. Provenía de una familia de músicos de la corte de Carlos III de Gonzaga-Nevers, duque de Mantua y se convirtió en un elemento básico del Teatro San Giovanni Grisóstomo, el más nuevo y el más famoso teatro de Venecia, en la década de 1680. La primera obra con la que se puede vincular es de Pietro Simone Agostini en Il Ratto delle Sabine (El rapto de las sabinas). Ella fue especialmente elogiada por su aparición en el papel principal de Penélope la casta de Carlo Pallavicino en el invierno de 1685. El elector Juan Jorge III de Sajonia, en cuya corte Pallavicino había servido, estaba tan emocionado por su actuación que trató de convencerla a ella y a dos castrati del mismo elenco para que actuaran en su corte. Después de una puesta en escena "secuestro", Salicola es acompañada en el camino a Dresde por un agente de Mantua.

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