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MARIETTA ALBONI (1823-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 512 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIETTA See also:ALBONI (1823-1894)  , See also:Italian See also:opera-See also:singer, was See also:born at See also:Cesena, Romagna, and was trained in See also:music at See also:Bologna, where she became a See also:pupil of See also:Rossini . She had a magnificent See also:contralto See also:voice, and in 1843 made her first See also: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 in 1847, and she had brilliant success all over See also:Europe in the leading operatic roles; in 1853 she repeated these triumphs in the See also:United States . Indeed, with the exception of See also:Malibran,she had no compeer among the contraltos of the See also:century, the old Italian school of singing finding in her a really See also:great representative . She married first See also: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, and died at Ville d'Avray in 1894 .

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