Ciro Pinsuti

He was born in Sinalunga near Siena, Italy, the son of Maddalena Formichi and G. Battista Pinsuti, who was the music teacher of the local orchestra.

After studying music with a friend of his father, he made his first public appearance on 7 March 1840 at the age of ten in the Civic Theatre of Perugia playing the violin in the orchestra.

[2] After the season, his father took him to Rome, where he played for several important Roman families, and gaining access to the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.

In 1879 he conducted Verdi's Il Trovatore at the theatre in Sinalunga, now named after him, and supported the local orchestra, which was led by his brother, Domenico Pinsuti.

[4] Pinsuti composed three operas: Margherita, performed for the first time at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1882 and three years later in the Municipal Theatre of Sinalunga in 1885.

Mattia Corvino (Matthias Corvinus), performed for the first time at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on March 24, 1877, a lyrical drama in a prologue and three acts.

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 ]
Porzia (soprano), costume design for Il mercante di Venezia act 4 (1873).