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![<p>His Voice and Something More: Francesco Borosini’s Cantata <em>Quando miro o stella o fiore</em> for Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen</p>](assets/Uploads/2021/PellicciaBorosini/_resampled/ScaleWidthWzIwMF0/PellicciaBorosiniCover.jpg)
His Voice and Something More: Francesco Borosini’s Cantata Quando miro o stella o fiore for Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Eighteenth-century opera singers often engaged in activities that far exceeded their role as mere performers. Not only could they have a decisive impact on a composer’s musical choices; they often functioned as “cultural middlemen,” cultivating contacts to various noblemen. We can observe a prime example for a singer’s “networking abilities”...
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