Giuseppe Siboni

27 January 1780 Forlì – 29 March 1839 Copenhagen

Picture of Giuseppe Siboni

Repertory

Ester (Ahasvero, composer Tarchi) – Firenze, La Pergola, March 1797
Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode (Mingone, composer Sarti) – Forlì, primavera 1797
L'astuta in amore (composer Fioravanti) – Rimini, carnevale 1798
La donna di genio volubile (composer Portogallo) – Rimini, carnevale 1798
La molinara (composer Paisiello) – Forlì, estate 1798
Le gelosie villane (composer Sarti) – Forlì, estate 1798
Il fumo senz'arrosto (composer Tamagni) – Bagnacavallo, autunno 1798
Oro non compra amore (Barone, composer Caruso) – Bologna, primavera 1799
La paniella perduta (composer unknown) – Bologna, estate 1799
Don Giovanni – Bologna, estate 1799
L'impresario in rovine (composer Fioravanti) – Bologna, estate 1799
Indatiro (Atamaro, composer Niccolini) – Genova, Sant'Agostino, carnevale 1800
Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi (Marco Orazio) – Praga, 6 February 1802
L'intrigo amoroso (Saed, composer Paër) – Praga, 6 March 1802
Il principe di Taranto (composer Paër) – Praga, 9 June 1802
Achille (Achille, composer Paër) – Praga, 14 December 1803
Sargino, ossia L'allievo dell'amore (Sargino figlio) – Praga, April 1805
Abenamet e Zoraide (Boadil, composer Niccolini) – Milano, Scala, 26 December 1805
L'arrivo in Milano degli sposi (composer Minoja) – Milano, Scala, 13 February 1806
Il trionfo della pace (Sileno, composer Federici) – Milano, Scala, 17 February 1806
Roberto, l'assassino (Astolfo, composer Trento) – Londra, King's Theater, 3 February 1807
Il ritorno di Serse (Serse, composer Portogallo) – Londra, King's Theater, 24 February 1807
La morte di Mitridate (composer Portogallo) – Londra, King's Theater, 18 April 1807
Il barbiere di Siviglia – Londra, King's Theater, 9 June 1807
La morte di Cleopatra (composer Nasolini) – Londra, King's Theater, 9 July 1807
La morte di Semiramide (Arsace, composer Portogallo) – Dublino, Royal Theater, 20 August 1808
Il fanatico per la musica (composer Mayr) – Dublino, Royal Theater, 25 August 1808
Didone abbandonata (Jarba, composer Paisiello) – Dublino, Royal Theater, 27 August 1808
Il furbo contro al furbo (composer Fioravanti) – Dublino, Royal Theater, 1 September 1808
La caccia di Enrico IV (Enrico, composer Pucitta) – Londra, King's Theater, 7 March 1809
Teresa e Claudio (composer Farinelli) – Londra, King's Theater, 13 April 1809
L'amor vuol gioventù (composer Pucitta) – Londra, King's Theater, 1 June 1809
Pirro (Pirro, composer Paisiello) – Londra, King's Theater, 8 September 1809
Raul di Crequi (Baldovino, composer Mayr) – Milano, Scala, 26 December 1809
Arminia (Traiano) – Milano, Scala, 3 February 1810
Debora e Sisara (Sisara, composer Guglielmi) – Milano, Scala, 24 March 1810
Traiano in Dacia (Traiano, composer Niccolini) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 26 May 1810
Ginevra di Scozia (Polinesso) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 23 June 1810
Coroliano (Sicinio, composer Niccolini) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 10 September 1810
La vestale (Licinio) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 12 November 1810
La clemenza di Tito – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 2 January 1811
Griselida, ossia la virtù al cimento (Gualtieri, composer Paër) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 3 April 1811
Quinto Fabio Rutiliano (Lucio Papirio, composer Niccolini) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 24 April 1811
Gli antichi slavi (composer Niccolini) – Raudnitz, castello, 20 September 1811
Medée (Giasone) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 1 January 1812
Federica ed Astolfo (Ernesto, composer Gyrowetz) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 6 April 1812
Ferdinando Cortez (Cortez) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 26 May 1812
Il rivale di se stesso (Adolfo) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 29 October 1812
Salem (Salem, composer Mosel) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 5 March 1813
Davise o la morte di Golia (Saul, composer Liverati) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 8 April 1813
Les bayadères (Demally, composer Catel) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 14 October 1813
Lodoïska (Conte Floresky) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 24 January 1814
Camilla, ossia il sotterraneo (Loredano, composer Paër) – Vienna, Kärntnertortheater, 9 February 1814
Cora (Alonso, composer Mayr) – Napoli, San Carlo, 19 January 1815
Così fan tutte – Napoli, del Fondo, 20 April 1815
La morte di Semiramide (Seleuco, composer Nasolini) – Napoli, San Carlo, 16 August 1815
La parola di onore, ossia Zelinda e Rodrigo (Alfonso, composer Tritto) – Napoli, del Fondo, 27 September 1815
Il trionfo di Alessandro (Alesandro, composer Andreozzi) – Napoli, San Carlo, 24 January 1816
Clato (Classamoro, composer Generali) – Bologna, Comunale, 4 January 1817

Gerhard Schepelern Giuseppe Siboni, Cassa di Risparmio di Forlì, 1995

Siboni studied voice in his home town with the castrato Sebastiano Folicaldi. The stages of his career are perfectly obvious from the above chronology; in addition to that, he also appeared at the Mariinskij in St. Petersburg in 1818.

His specialty were the operas of Paër, and he was also tremendously successful as Licinio in La vestale.

After his career, he settled in Copenhagen in 1819 (King Christian III was a huge Siboni fan), where he was royal voice teacher, director of the Royal Opera House, and founding director of the Royal Conservatory (1825). One of his pupils was basso Peter Schram (1819–95), the oldest singer on record.

Reference 1: Kutsch & Riemens; reference 2


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