Giusto Fernando Tenducci

Giusto Fernando Tenducci, sometimes called "il Senesino"[1] (c.1735[2] – 25 January 1790), was a male soprano (castrato) opera singer and composer, who passed his career partly in Italy but chiefly in the United Kingdom.

He sang an aria by the castrato Caffarelli in Baldassare Galuppi's Attalo, and the following year he was singing in Gioacchino Cocchi's Ciro riconosciuto.

[2] He spent eight months in a debtors prison, but by 1764 he was back at the King's Theatre where he befriended Johann Christian Bach, singing the title role in the latter's new opera Adriano in Siria,[2] opposite Giovanni Manzuoli as the "primo uomo" (leading male singer).

His subsequent biographer Helen Berry was unable to corroborate this claim and suggested that they may have been the children of Dorothea's second husband, Robert Long Kingsman.

[6] A group known as the "frolicsome Dublin boys" sang a song about him: "Tenducci was a piper's son/ and he was in love when he was young,/ and all the tunes that he could play/ was Water parted from the say.