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Marianna Benti-Bulgarelli
Italian opera singer
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patronage of Metastasio
- In Pietro Metastasio
…taken by the prima donna Marianna Benti-Bulgarelli, called La Romanina, who became enamoured of the poet. In her salon Metastasio formed his lifelong friendship with the castrato male soprano Carlo Farinelli and came to know such composers as Nicola Porpora (from whom he took music lessons), Domenico Sarro, and Leonardo…
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