Ciro Pinsuti was an Anglo-Italian composer. Educated in music for a career as a pianist, he studied composition under Rossini. From 1848 he made his home in England, where he became a teacher of singing, and in 1856 he was made a professor at the Academy of Music in London.
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Ciro Pinsuti.
Pinsuti's birthplace in Sinalunga
Set design for Act I in the première production of Margherita (1882)
Interno delle prigioni di Praga, set design for Mattia Corvino, prologue (1877).![A sketch by Phil May of a singer delivering "I fear no foe". The contrast between the macho lyrics of this Pinsuti song and the genteel context in which it was typically sung was picked up by several satirists, including P. G. Wodehouse in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Sketch_by_Phil_May.jpg/500px-Sketch_by_Phil_May.jpg)
A sketch by Phil May of a singer delivering "I fear no foe". The contrast between the macho lyrics of this Pinsuti song and the genteel context in which it was typically sung was picked up by several satirists, including P. G. Wodehouse in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.[5]
Porzia (soprano), costume design for Il mercante di Venezia act 4 (1873).Musicians born in the 1820s 6
About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1828 to 1888 · aged 59
Written about in
6 languages
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