Angelo Maria Zannoni

Angelo Maria Zannoni was an Italian bass born in Venice, active between 1710 and 1732 according to the dates recorded in the surviving documentation. For some years he was in the service of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, a detail that places his career within the circuit of German courts and Italian opera houses of the first half of the eighteenth century.

His earliest known performances took place in Padua, in 1710 and 1712. In 1713 he sang in Ferrara in Albinoni's opera Lucio Vero. From December 1714 he spent five months in London, where he made his debut at the King's Theatre as Argante in a revival of Handel's Rinaldo on 30 December. During the same period he took part in two pasticcios, Lucio Vero and Arminio, and in two concerts in the Great Room in James Street. At the first of these, given for his benefit, he also played the viola da gamba.

Back in Italy, in 1716 he sang in Venice in two operas by Vivaldi and one by Chelleri. In 1718 he performed in Bologna and Padua in Orlandini's Lucio Papirio. He returned to Venice in 1719–1721, 1726 and 1732, and in total took part in nine operas in the city. It is said that he also worked in Germany, Vienna and France, although no details confirm this.

His importance lies above all in the evidence of his itinerant career and in the three caricatures of him made by A. M. Zanetti, preserved in the Cini collection in Venice.