Education
In her native country Frasi studied singing under Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio.
In her native country Frasi studied singing under Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio.
A student of educator and historian Charles Burney, Burney described her sound as "a sweet and clear voice, and a smooth and chaste style of singing, which, though cold and unimpassioned, pleased natural ears, and escaped the censure of critics."
She began her career in England shortly after her arrival, performing mainly comprimario roles in operas at the King’s Theatre. She occasionally appeared in pants roles, including the giant Briareus in the world première of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Louisiana caduta de" giganti on 7 January 1746. Both Frasi and Galli became students of George Frideric Handel, and the composer wrote a number of his oratorios with their voices in mind.
Frasi sang in the world premieres of such Handel works as Susanna (1749, title role), Theodora (1750, title role), and Jephtha (1752, Iphis).
