RRome, 6 December. (askanews) – The book was presented to the Chamber of Deputies La Bastardella: life of Lucrezia Agujari, queen of Bel Canto (Set Editrice) signed by the opera singer, as well as General Secretary of the Artists Union, Dora Liguori. During the presentation, called on the initiative of the Honorable Grazia Di Maggio, the art and life of what is considered the greatest exponent of the Beautiful songincluded by UNESCO in the List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
«One cannot help but remember the greatest of all Italian singers who is Lucrezia Agujari known as the bastard”, declared Dora Liguori, “a great singer of the second half of the eighteenth century celebrated throughout Europe which has behind it a great testimony of Mozart father and son, otherwise we would not know about this great vocal range of hers which is described by all the critics of the time. She was also a great woman and feminist.
Found in a garbage dump by the lawyer Agujari, even though he had adopted her, before the others said it, she called herself the bastard and she always said: I am mine; so much so that she believed so much that she was his property that she never wanted to marry her partner (the composer Giuseppe Colla, ed.), with whom she was very much in love, to whom she gave two children, she only did so towards the end. Marriage was also a way to share her person with another and she wanted to be his. This is the greatness of Lucrezia Agujari, a great singer and a great feminist.” During his short life (she died of tuberculosis at just 36 years old), Agujari was always a woman profoundly free and unconventionalsort of feminist “ante litteram” who never accepted bonds or impositions.
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