Maria Teresa Rebecca Brambilla better known as Marietta Brambilla (6 June 1807 – 6 November 1875) was an Italian contralto who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe from 1827 until her retirement from the stage in 1848. She is best known today for having created the roles of Maffio Orsini in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia and Pierotto in his Linda di Chamounix, but she also created several other roles in lesser-known works. She was the elder sister of the opera singers Teresa and Giuseppina Brambilla and the aunt of Teresina Brambilla who was also an opera singer.
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Maria Teresa Rebecca Brambilla better known as MariettaBrambilla (6 June 1807 – 6 November 1875) was an Italian contralto who sang leading roles in the...
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married in 1874. Brambilla was born in Cassano d'Adda to a musical family. Her five aunts were all opera singers, three of whom (Marietta, Teresa, and Giuseppina...
Giuseppina (or Giuseppa) Brambilla (9 May 1819 – April 1903) was an Italian opera singer who, like her sisters Marietta and Teresa Brambilla, sang leading roles...
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Vicomte de Sirval tenor Napoleone Moriani Pierotto, an orphan contralto MariettaBrambilla Antonio, Linda's father baritone Felice Varesi Marquis de Boisfleury...
(1847) had a book by the leading librettist Salvadore Cammarano. MariettaBrambilla created the title role in his opera Irene (1847), while the soprano...
Bianca, Manfredo's wife, but secretly in love with Viscardo contralto MariettaBrambilla Viscardo di Benevento, Elaisa's rescuer tenor Francesco Pedrazzi Brunoro...
Contemporary London's comment associated Flower's voice with that of MariettaBrambilla (1807–1875) as possessing a "contralto voice of [...] delicious voluptuous...
born in San Zenone al Po, near Pavia, the son of Carlo, a tailor, and Marietta Ghisoni. Among his ancestors was a Hungarian great-grandmother who married...
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