Millico, Giuseppe (1737-1802)

Italian castrato soprano and composer. He was discovered by Gluck, in whose Le feste d'Apollo he sang at Parma in 1769. Engaged by the imperial opera in Vienna, he sang the following year in the first performance of Gluck's Paride ed Elena. He later visited London, Paris, and Berlin, and from 1780 lived in Naples.

Works Opera La pietà d'amore (published 1782), La Zelinda, Ipermestra, Le Cinesi (1780); cantata Angelica e Medoro (with Cimarosa).