Maria Anna Marzia (called Marietta) Alboni (6 March 1826[1] – 23 June 1894) was an Italian contralto opera singer. She is considered "one of the greatest contraltos in operatic history".[2]
^Date stated by both Ciliberti and Pougin; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica gives the year as 1823.
^Entry in Harold Rosenthal & John Warrack (ed.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 6, ISBN 0-19-311321-X.
Maria Anna Marzia (called Marietta) Alboni (6 March 1826 – 23 June 1894) was an Italian contralto opera singer. She is considered "one of the greatest...
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Hand-written note by contralto MariettaAlboni about the decay of bel canto in the late 19th century. The French text reads: "The art of singing is going...
June 8 –William M. Dalton, American Old West outlaw (b. 1866) June 23 MariettaAlboni, Italian opera singer (b. 1826) Władysław Czartoryski, Polish political...
heroic male roles in the mezzo-soprano range, where singers such as MariettaAlboni and Rosamunda Pisaroni specialised in such roles. (See Xerxes below...
music in concert halls and/or opera houses. Eunice Alberts (1927–2012) MariettaAlboni (1823–1894) Marian Anderson (1897–1993) Fanny Anitúa (1887–1968) Cecil...
rewarded with an extra cheque for fifty pounds, starred Marietta Piccolomini, MariettaAlboni and Antonio Giuglini. The opera "remained in the repertories...
Ventadour in Paris by the Théâtre-Italien, with soloists Gabrielle Krauss, MariettaAlboni, Ernest Nicolas and Luigi Agnesi. In 1869, both the piano version and...
Viardot as Valentina and MariettaAlboni as Urbano in Act 1 of Meyerbeer's Gli Ugonotti. Royal Italian Opera (Covent Garden) (1848) (lithograph by John...
June 9 – Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868) June 23 – MariettaAlboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826) July 17 – Leconte de Lisle, lyricist...
piano accompaniment for Olympe Pélissier; it was revised in 1859 for MariettaAlboni. It is often performed in an orchestral arrangement by Salvatore Sciarrino...
composer (died 1910) February 16 – Franz von Holstein, composer March 6 – MariettaAlboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894) March 14 – William Fisk Sherwin, composer...
the greatest soprano of the 19th century, Jenny Lind not excepted." MariettaAlboni (1823–1894), was a singer, described in Grove's Dictionary as "the...
non! Vouz n'avez jamais, je gage" in 1848, when it was performed by MariettaAlboni at the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden (Jander, Owen/Steane, J...
Bassini in the role of Alfonso, and at La Scala as Elda in 1843 with MariettaAlboni in the title role, though Donizetti himself was not involved in these...
mezzo-soprano, she was particularly associated with Rossini roles MariettaAlboni (1823–1894), operatic contralto known for her classic Italian bel canto...
Cenerentola with MariettaAlboni performing for the first time in New York City, supported by Signors Sangiovanni, Rovere, and Barili. Alboni appeared as Norma...
and demolished before 1859. The station has two accesses from Rue Marietta-Alboni, on either side of the station, each divided into two adjoining entrances:...
Tietjens, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Clara Louise Kellogg, Marie Roze and MariettaAlboni, as well as Nellie Melba. Strakosch occasionally performed as a pianist...
as Alfredo Piatti, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ole Bull, Giorgio Ronconi and MariettaAlboni. He sang in the solo quartet of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Clara...
Caliban by Lablache, directed by Balfe. Gardoni and the star contralto MariettaAlboni were the lead soloists, in the presence of Queen Isabella II, in the...
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