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ALBONI, MARIETTA (1823-1894)

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ALBONI, MARIETTA (1823-1894)

ALBONI, See also:
MARIETTA
MARIETTA (1823-1894) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera-See also:

SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

CESENA (anc. Caesena)

Cesena, Romagna, and was trained in See also:

MUSIC

music at See also:

Bologna, where she became a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

ROSSINI, GIOACHINO ANTONIO (1792-1868)

Rossini. She had a magnificent See also:

CONTRALTO (from Ital. contra-alto, i.e. next above the alto)

contralto See also:

VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice, and in 1843 made her first See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance at La Scala, See also:

Milan, being recognized at once as a public favourite. In See also:

England her reputation was established by her appearance at Covent See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden in 1847, and she had brilliant success all over See also:

EUROPE

Europe in the leading operatic roles; in 1853 she repeated these triumphs in the See also:

UNITED

United States. Indeed, with the exception of See also:

MALIBRAN, MARIE

Malibran,she had no compeer among the contraltos of the See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, the old Italian school of singing finding in her a really See also:

GREAT

great representative. She married first See also:

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count A. Pepoli, who died in 1866, and secondly (1877) a See also:

French officer, M. Zieger; she lived in See also:

Paris after her first See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage, and died at Ville d'Avray in 1894.

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