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GRISI, GIULIA (1811-1869)

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GRISI, GIULIA (1811-1869) , See also:Italian See also:opera-See also:singer, daughter of one of See also:Napoleon's Italian See also:officers, was See also:born in See also:Milan. She came of a See also:family of musical gifts, her maternal aunt Josephina Grassini (1773–1850) being a favourite opera-singer both on the See also:continent and in See also:London; her See also:mother had also been a singer, and her See also:elder See also:sister Giudetta and her See also:cousin Carlotta were both exceedingly talented. Giulia was trained to a musical career, and made her See also:stage debut in 1828. See also:Rossini and See also:Bellini both took an See also:interest in her, and at Milan she was the first Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma, in which Pasta took the See also:title-See also:part. Grisi appeared in See also:Paris in 1832, as Semiramide in. Rossini's opera, and had a See also:great success; and in 1834 she appeared in London. Her See also:voice was a brilliant dramatic See also:soprano, and her established position as a prima donna continued for See also:thirty years. She was a particularly See also:fine actress, and in London opera her association with such singers as See also:Lablache, Rubini, Tamburini and See also:Mario was See also:long remembered as the palmy days of Italian opera. In 1854 she toured with Mario in See also:America. She had married See also:Count de Melcy in 1836, but this ended in a See also:divorce; and in 1856 she married Mario (q.v.). She died in See also:Berlin on the 29th of See also:November 1869.

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