Maria Farneti

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Maria Farneti (8 December 1877 – 17 October 1955) was an Italian soprano singer.

Early life

Maria Farneti was born at Forlì, the daughter of Domenico Farneti and Clementina Babini.[1] She studied voice with Virginia Gazzuoli, at the Liceo Rossini in Pesaro.[2]

Career

Maria Farneti in costume for Madama Butterfly, 1907

Farneti, "said to be the greatest beauty on the Italian stage",

Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly in Rome and Naples, and she was well-reviewed in Ariane in 1908.[7] She sang on tours of South America, at theatres in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro, in 1911 and 1913. She was the first to sing the title role of Mascagni's Isabeau. Her last stage role was in Puccini's La Rondine in 1917.[8]

She made recordings in 1910 (for Edison),[9] 1914-1917 (for Fonotipia Records), and 1930-1931 (for Columbia). In 1922 she coached Irish soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan for a performance of Madama Butterfly.[10]

Personal life

Farneti married a lawyer, Luigi Riboldi, in 1917, and spent her retirement in a villa on

São Paulo, Brazil.[13]
In 2015, there was a musical commemoration in Forlì to mark sixty years since her death.

References

  1. ^ Roberto Staccioli, "Maria Farneti" Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 45(1995).
  2. ^
    ISBN 9781555536831
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  4. ^ Pierre Van Rensselaer Key, Bruno Zirato, Enrico Caruso: A Biography (Little, Brown 1922): 176.
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  6. ^ Alan Mallach, "The Mascagni Tour of 1902: An Italian Composer Confronts the American Musical World" Opera Quarterly 7(4)(Winter 1990): 13.
  7. ^ "Maria Farneti's Success in Massenet's Arianna" Musical Courier (January 22, 1908): 14.
  8. ^ Ashot Arakelyan, "Maria Farneti (Soprano)" Forgotten Opera Singers (August 22, 2011).
  9. ^ Maria Farneti, "Otello. Ave Maria" Edison Blue Amberol: 28139. William R. Moran collection, UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive.
  10. ISBN 9780863272301
  11. ISBN 9780226733401
  12. ^ Via Maria Farneti, Forlì; Tuttocittà.
  13. ^ Rua Maria Farneti, Jardim São Roberto, São Paulo.

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