BOROSINI’S KNOWN OPERATIC APPEARANCES:

Borosini’s Known Operatic Appearances

What follows is a list of the operas in which sources clearly indicate Borosini’s participation. Along with the title of each opera is given the composer, the date of the first performance (approximate if not otherwise determinant), the city in which the performance took place, and the role in which Borosini appeared (if known). This list is by no means exhaustive; there were a great many works performed for the Viennese court in which Borosini’s participation can be assumed but for which this author has not yet found documentary evidence. During Borosini’s tenure at court, at least twenty-three of Antonio Caldara’s theatrical works were performed in various imperial venues at times when Borosini was not traveling; without examining performing scores or libretti, this author has been able to connect Borosini conclusively with only three of these works. In addition to the operas he sang numerous other works, sacred and secular, including serenatas, oratorios, and liturgical compositions.

Composer	Work	Role	Place	Date
^3,9Lotti	Il vincitor generoso	Ermano	Venice	1/10/1708
^4Conti	Circe fatta saggia (serenata)	no role names given	Vienna	8/28/1713
^4Conti	Alba Cornelia	Lentuolo	Vienna	2/5/1714
^4Conti	I Satiri in Arcadia (serenata)	Damone	Vienna	8/28/1714
^4Conti	Il Ciro	Sibari	Vienna	2/9/1715
^4Conti	Teseo in Creta	Tauride	Vienna	8/28/1715
^1,3,5Fux	Orfeo ed Euridice (comp. di camera)	Aristeo	Vienna	10/1/1715
^4Conti	Il finto Policare	Turbone	Vienna	1/24/1716
^5Fux	Angelica vincitrice di Alcina	Ruggiero	Vienna	9/14/1716
^4Conti	Sesostri, re di Egitto	Amassi Tiranno	Vienna	1/24/1717
^9Caldara	Cajo Marzio Coriolano	Sicinio	Vienna	8/28/1717
^8Caldara	Il Tiridate, ovvero La verità nell’inganno	Nicomede	Vienna	11/11/1717
^5Fux	Diana placata (comp. di camera)	Calcante	Vienna	11/19/1717
^4Conti	Astarto	Agenore	Vienna	2/18/1718
^1,4Conti	Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena	Don Chisciotte	Vienna	2/11/1719
^{1,2,3,9Gasparini}	Il Bajazet	Bajazet	Reggio	spring 1719
^6Caldara	Sirita	?	Vienna	8/21/1719
^5Fux	Elisa	Enea	Vienna	8/28/1719
^10Gasparini	L’oracolo del Fato (comp. di camera)	Fato	Vienna	10/1/1719
^4Conti	Galatea vendicata	Ulisse	Vienna	11/19/1719
^2collab.*	Nino	Atalo	Reggio	5/29/1720
^2Vignati	Aquilio in Siracusa	Arrenione	Milan	8/26/1720
^4Conti	Alessandro in Sidone	Crate	Vienna	2/8/1721
^4Conti	La via del saggio	Ercole	Vienna	10/1/1721
^2,4Conti	Archelao, re di Cappadocia	Archelao	Vienna	1/29/1722
^5Fux	Le Nozze di Aurora	Giove	Vienna	10/6/1722
^4Conti	Pallade trionfante	Marte	Vienna	11/19/1722
^2,4Conti	Creso	Esopo	Vienna	1/26/1723
^1,3,5Fux	Costanza e Fortezza	Orazio	Prague	8/28/1723
^2,4,9Conti	Penelope	Ulisse	Vienna	2/6/1724
^1,3Handel	Tamerlano	Bajazet	London	10/31/1724
^3Ariosti	Artaserse	Artaserse	London	12/1/1724
^1,2,3Handel	Giulio Cesare	Sesto	London	1/2/1725
^1,2,3Handel	Rodelinda	Grimoaldo	London	2/13/1725
^2,3Ariosti	Il Dario	Siderme	London	4/10/1725
^{2,3pasticcio**}	Elpidia	Vitige	London	5/11/1725
^1Porsile	Spartaco	Spartaco	Vienna	2/21/1726
^5Fux	La Corona d’Arianna	Asterio	Vienna	8/28/1726
^7Caldara	La forza dell’amicizia, ovvero Pilade ed Oreste	?	Graz	8/10/1728
^5Fux	Orfeo ed Euridice (revival)	Aristeo	Vienna	1728
Caldara	Cajo Fabbricio	?	Vienna	11/1729
^{2,9Giacomelli}	Lucio Papirio Dittatore	Lucio Papiro	Parma	1729
^2,3Paradies	Fetonte	Merope	London	1747
^3Terradellas	Bellerofonte	Giobate	London	1747

^{1 Borosini’s name appears in cast list of score or libretto, a facsimile of which has been viewed by this author
^{2 Claudio Sartori, I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800: catalogo analitico con 16 indici. 5 vols. plus indeces. Cuneo: Bertola & Locatelli, 1990
^{3 Winton Dean, "Francesco Borosini". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie. London: 1992. vol. 1, pp. 562-563.
^{4 Dr. Hermine Williams has catalogued Borosini’s appearances in Conti’s works
^{5 Köchel, Ludwig Ritter von. Johann Josef Fux: Hofcompositor und Hofkapellmeister der Kaiser Leopold I, Josef I, und Karl VI von 1698 bis 1740. Reprint with thematic catalogue and list of works, Hildesheim, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1974.
^{6 Glynnis Ward, "Caldara, Borosini and the One hundred cantici, or, some Viennese canons abroad". In Antonio Caldara: essays on his life and times, ed. Brian W. Pritchard. Aldershot: Scolar, 1987. pp. 301-343.
^{7 Susan Wollenberg, "Vienna under Joseph I and Charles VI". In The Late Baroque Era: from the 1680’s to 1740, ed. George J. Buelow. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994. pp. 324-354.
^{8 Robert Freeman, "La verità nella ripetizione". Musical Quarterly 54 (1968), pp. 208-227.
^{9 The RISM Database of libretti in the Schatz Collection (US: Library of Congress) cites Borosini’s name on the cast list of the libretto
^{10 Leopold M. Kantner, "Le opre di Francesco Gasparini a Vienna".

*The music of Act I was by Giovanni Maria Capelli, Act II Francesco Gasparini and Act III Antonio Bononcini.
**Borosini’s arias in Elpidia were by by Leonardo Vinci’s Rosmira fedele.and Giuseppe Maria Orlandini’s Berenice, both composed for Venice in 1725 (Strohm 1985, pp200-201). Borosini did not appear in either original production.}}}}}}}}}}