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Abstract:  SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROFESSION OF BARD AND SINGER IN ROME DURING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES The musical scene in Papal Rome was teeming with local and migrant singers from various parts of the peninsula. They were attracted by the high demand created both by the courts and the ecclesiastical chapels in which they worked in a state of total professional osmosis. Studies investigating the musical institutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and above all the availability of documents on this great age of melodrama and the Roman oratorio (Sartori, Franchi, etc) have enabled us to reconstruct the careers of various vocalist. We have been able to pinpoint the fundamental role that the Giulian and Sistine Vatican chapels had, not only in the field of sacred music, but also with regard to melodrama and oratorio during a time in which it was often preferred, for financial reasons and depending on opportunity, to employ basilica virtuosos rather than vagrant musical groups or singers.