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    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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  • Alboni is the surname of: Marietta Alboni (1826–1894), Italian contralto opera singer Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter Edgardo Alboni (1919–2015)...
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  • Wisconsin Marietta Township (disambiguation) Marietta Alboni (1823–1894), Italian opera singer Marietta Blau (1894–1970), Austrian physicist Marietta Bones...
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  • Hand-written note by contralto Marietta Alboni about the decay of bel canto in the late 19th century. The French text reads: "The art of singing is going...
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    concert in Manchester's Gentlemen's Concert Hall, sharing the stage with Marietta Alboni and Lorenzo Salvi. In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to...
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  • music in concert halls and/or opera houses. Eunice Alberts (1927–2012) Marietta Alboni (1823–1894) Marian Anderson (1897–1993) Fanny Anitúa (1887–1968) Cecil...
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    heroic male roles in the mezzo-soprano range, where singers such as Marietta Alboni and Rosamunda Pisaroni specialised in such roles. (See Xerxes below...
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  • composer (died 1910) February 16 – Franz von Holstein, composer March 6 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894) March 14 – William Fisk Sherwin, composer...
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    Ventadour in Paris by the Théâtre-Italien, with soloists Gabrielle Krauss, Marietta Alboni, Ernest Nicolas and Luigi Agnesi. In 1869, both the piano version and...
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    rewarded with an extra cheque for fifty pounds, starred Marietta Piccolomini, Marietta Alboni and Antonio Giuglini. The opera "remained in the repertories...
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  • Belgian filmmaker and writer Jehan Alain – French composer and organist Marietta Alboni – Italian opera singer Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand – French civil...
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  • June 8 –William M. Dalton, American Old West outlaw (b. 1866) June 23 Marietta Alboni, Italian opera singer (b. 1826) Władysław Czartoryski, Polish political...
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    the greatest soprano of the 19th century, Jenny Lind not excepted." Marietta Alboni (1823–1894), was a singer, described in Grove's Dictionary as "the...
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    Viardot as Valentina and Marietta Alboni as Urbano in Act 1 of Meyerbeer's Gli Ugonotti. Royal Italian Opera (Covent Garden) (1848) (lithograph by John...
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    piano accompaniment for Olympe Pélissier; it was revised in 1859 for Marietta Alboni. It is often performed in an orchestral arrangement by Salvatore Sciarrino...
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    reads: "The popular duet, written for Madlle. Jenny Lind & Madlle. Marietta Alboni." The inside of the sheet gives the title as "The Evening Breeze",...
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  • June 9 – Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868) June 23 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826) July 17 – Leconte de Lisle, lyricist...
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    Bassini in the role of Alfonso, and at La Scala as Elda in 1843 with Marietta Alboni in the title role, though Donizetti himself was not involved in these...
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    non! Vouz n'avez jamais, je gage" in 1848, when it was performed by Marietta Alboni at the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden (Jander, Owen/Steane, J...
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    mezzo-soprano, she was particularly associated with Rossini roles Marietta Alboni (1823–1894), operatic contralto known for her classic Italian bel canto...
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    Giordano Noferini, Lidia Proietti, Carmine Carrisi, and Donatella Pieri. Marietta Alboni Alice Barbi Gianni Bedori Chiara Benati Giacomo Benvenuti Marco Enrico...
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    Cenerentola with Marietta Alboni performing for the first time in New York City, supported by Signors Sangiovanni, Rovere, and Barili. Alboni appeared as Norma...
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  • Jr. as Baron Rothschild Claudio Gora as Dr. Bardos Silvia Cohen as Marietta Alboni Pia Velsi as Adina Maurizio Mattioli as Mimì Vittorio Gassman as Ludwig...
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    love for the Italian soprano Marietta Alboni. The sisters' Italian singing-master secretly arranged for a meeting with Alboni, but the encounter did not...
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    19th century's most celebrated singers, including Thérèse Tietjens, Marietta Alboni, Antonio Giuglini and Zelia Trebelli. Once the 1862–63 season was over...
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    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:...
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    Marie) (mezzo) as Adalgisa, and Weber's Oberon with Sims Reeves (Huon), Marietta Alboni (Fatima), Trebelli (Puck), the tenor Alessandro Bettini (Oberon), Gassier...
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    1848 lithograph of Pauline Viardot as Valentine (left) and Marietta Alboni as Urbain in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Act 1 scene ix, Royal Opera...
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    George Washington, ca. 1850 Alvin Adams Brooks Adams John Quincy Adams Marietta Alboni Stephen Allen Susan B. Anthony Nathan Appleton William Appleton D.C...
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    Caliban by Lablache, directed by Balfe. Gardoni and the star contralto Marietta Alboni were the lead soloists, in the presence of Queen Isabella II, in the...
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