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Matteuccio
Matteo Sassano, pseudonym Matteuccio, around 1700.
Anonymus, oil on wood, 100 × 76 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
Anonymus, oil on wood, 100 × 76 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
Matteo Sassano, called Matteuccio[1] (1667 - 15 October 1737), was a famous Italian castrato, also called "the nightingale of Naples" (il rosignuolo di Napoli) because of his extremely beautiful soprano voice and virtuoso singing.
- ^ Other name variants are: Sassani; but also: Matteo Matteuccio, Matteucci, Mattheucci, Mattiuccio, Sassoni, Sassini. See Grazia Carbonella: "Matteo Sassano il rosignolo di Napoli", in La Capitanata, 21, 2007, pp. 235–260 (online, PDF Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 19 March 2021).
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