Ruggiero Fedeli (* around 1655 in Venice; † January 1722 in Kassel) was an Italian singer (bass), composer and conductor.
Ruggiero Fedeli was the son of Carlo Fedeli, a concertmaster at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. His first jobs were as a viola player in various theaters in Venice and in the chapel at St. Mark's Basilica, where he joined the choir as a bass in 1674. He lost this position in 1677 due to unauthorized absences. Because of his apparently difficult character, he lost other posts, for example in 1681 after a brief period as Kapellmeister in Bayreuth and in 1687 in Dresden, where he opposed the vice-Kapellmeister Nicolaus Adam Strungk. He was the director of an Italian opera company that performed the first recorded performance of an Italian opera in Regensburg in 1690, the opera ''pastorale La Silvia''. Several changes of position followed: among others, he was in Berlin, where he worked from 1691 to 1695, and is also mentioned as a singer at the court of Hanover in 1695.
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