Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Amicis, Anna De
Amicis, Anna De. An Italian female singer; she performed in the comic operas in London in 1763, and was afterwards selected by J. C. Bach to take the principal parts in serious operas. Her figure and gestures were in the highest degree elegant and graceful ; her countenance, though not perfectly beautiful, was extremely high bred and interesting, and her voice and manner of singing exquisitely polished and sweet. She had not a motion that did not charm the eye, nor a tone but what delighted the ear. De Amicis afterwards held the first rank among female singers in the serious operas of Naples and other capital cities of Italy.