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This year marks the 250th birthday of Giuseppe Nicolini, our composer of the month for February.
Nicolini's biography article is a stub needing expansion, and we have no articles on any of his 45 operas, which although now forgotten, were very popular in their day in both Italy and Austria. His opera Carlo Magna was expressly written for the castrato singer, Giovanni Velluti. The celebrated tenor Giacomo David created the title role in his Bruto. The latter opera premiered at the Teatro Sant'Agostino, the first public theatre in Genoa and the site of many opera premieres.