Portal:Francesca Cuzzoni
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Francesca Cuzzoni (2 April 1696 – 19 June 1778) was an Italian operatic soprano of the Baroque era and one of the two rival queens of George Frideric Handel's opera enterprise. She wrote music history as the soprano who refused to sing Falsa immagine by Handel until Handel threatened to throw her out of the window and by entering into a stage war with rival queen Faustina Bordoni
Works about Francesca Cuzzoni[edit]
- "Cuzzoni, Francesca," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)
- "Rival Queens—Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni" in Queens of Song (1862)