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| Farinelli and Friends - Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752, Italian) - oil (173 x 245 cm) c.1750-52 - National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne) - not on display |
At the culmination of a brilliant career, the renowned Italian castrato Carlo Broschi, called Farinelli (1705–82) in Madrid in the early 1750s, sits at the centre of an intimate circle of friends, including Teresa Castellini (the prima donna of the Madrid opera); the Abate Metastasio (lifelong friend and librettist); and the painter himself (standing).
Farinelli sings Lascia Ch'io Planga / Leave Me to Weep, an Italian-language sopranoaria by composer Handel that has become a popular concert piece:
The whole Farinelli movie (1994) (1h):
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