Giuseppe Belli (singer)

During the Seven Years' War he returned to Italy, and died in Naples at the beginning of 1760, when he was fatally stabbed one day before the premiere of Johann Adolph Hasse's new opera.

During his time in Dresden, he performed at the following operas by Hasse:[2] Ernst Ludwig Gerber relates[3] that he "moved everyone to tears" with Licida's aria Consola il genitore.

As Johann Joachim Winckelmann reports in a letter to his friend on 30 September 1758: "In the evening I am going to the opera [....] I am in Dresden, for the Pilaja is singing, and Lenzi and his wife are dancing.

[9] On 28 January 1760, the funeral service took place in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Naples, where numerous "Signori Virtuosi di Musica Napoletani" participated.

The musical direction of the funeral service lay in the hands of the Court Kapellmeister Giuseppe de Majo.