Guadagni, Gaetano (c. 1725–1792)

Italian castrato alto, later soprano. He made his first appearance in Parma in 1747, and went to London, England, in 1748, where he sang in Messiah, Samson, and Theodora (first performance 1750). He later sang in Dublin, Paris, Lisbon, Italy, and Vienna, where he was the first Orpheus in Christoph Willibald von Gluck's Orfeo in 1762.