Giuseppe Maria Boschi

During the first decade of the century he is known to have performed at Casale Monferrato, Vicenza, Ferrara, Vienna, Bologna and at Venice, where he created the role of Pallas in Handel's Agrippina for the 1709–1710 Carnevale season.

He made his London début in 1710 and, after 1711, returned to northern Italy, where he appeared in Venice, Verona, Bologna and Genoa.

From 1720 to 1728 he was engaged by the Handel's Royal Academy of Music in London, where he sang in all of the 32 operas that the organisation produced during that time.

Typically, it seems as though he excelled at so-called "rage arias", most of which Handel provided with energetic counterpoint.

He created the roles of Achilla in Giulio Cesare, Garibaldo in Rodelinda, Lotario in Flavio, and Araspe in Tolomeo.

A caricature of Boschi