Francesca Cuzzoni (1696-1778), Italian soprano, and Faustina Bordoni (1697-1781), Italian mezzo soprano. When they appeared together in Giovanni Bononcini’s Astianatte at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket, London, in 1727, a riot occurred between their rival fans. Copperplate engraving after portraits by Enoch Seeman (Cuzzoni) and Rosalba Carriera (Bordoni) published in London, 1790s.

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