La fortuna del 'Coro dos Italianos' della Cappella Reale e della Patriarcale di Lisbona nel secondo settecento

Until recently, the hiring of Italian singers by the Portuguese Crown during the second half of the eighteenth century has been approached mainly from an operatic point of view. Making use of sources like archive material, reports by foreign travellers along with musical scores, the present paper aims to analyse the social and professional status as well as the music-related activities of Italian singers who worked at the Royal Chapel and the Lisbon Patriarchal (which were established in different churches between 1755 and 1792) over a period of time that goes from 1750 to the departure of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil in 1807.