Teresa Bertinotti
Teresa Bertinotti (1776–1854)
Teresa Bertinotti (also known as Teresa Bertinotti-Radicati) (1776 – 12 Feb 1854) was an Italian
operas, including Simon Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia
.
Biography
Teresa Bertinotti was born in
King's Theatre
, where she appeared between 1811 and 1812.
In 1801, she married the violinist and composer
San Petronio Basilica. Following Radicati's death in 1823,[2] Bertinotti retired from the stage and taught singing. Amongst her pupils were Carolina Cuzzani, who became a prima donna at La Scala,[3] and Balbina Steffenone, who sang Leonora in the American premiere of Il trovatore.[4]
Teresa Bertinotti died in Bologna at the age of 78.
Roles
- Roles created
- Ipermestra in Angelo Tarchi's Le Danaidi (Milan, 1794)
- Rossana in Ferdinando Paer's Rossana (Milan, 1795)
- Ginevra in Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia (Trieste, 1801) [5]
- Zulira in Nicolini's La selvaggia nel Messico (Bologna, 1803)
- Virginia in Vincenzo Federici's La Virginia (Ferrara, 1805)
- Fedra in Felice Radicati's Fedra (London 1811)
- Telaira in Felice Radicati's Castore e Polluce (Bologna, 1815)
- Minerva in Farinelli's Il vero eroismo ossia Adria serenata (Venice, 1815)
- Other roles
- Berenice in Luigi Caruso's Antigono
- Merope in Sebastiano Nasolini's Merope e Polifonte
- Amenaide in Rossini's Tancredi
- Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni
- Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute
- Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte
- Fecennia in Pietro Generali's I baccanali di Roma
- Zenobia in Rossini's Aureliano in Palmira
Notes and references
Sources
- Bozoli, Giuseppe, "Radicati, Felice Maurizio", Biografia degli Italiani illustri nelle scienze, lettere ed arti del secolo XVIII, e de' contemporanei Volume 4, pp. 400–402, Alvisopoli, 1837 (in Italian)
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Teresa Bertinotti". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- De Bekker, L. J. (ed), "Bertinotti, Teresa", Stokes Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Volume 1, p. 67. Originally published in 1908 and published in facsimile by Read Books, 2007. ISBN 1-4067-7180-5
- Green, Janet M. and Hubbard, William Lines, "Bertinotti, Teresa", Musical Biographies, Originally published in 1908 and published in facsimile by Read Books in 2008, p. 71. ISBN 1-4097-7867-3
- Grove, George, "Bertinotti, Teresa", A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) Vol. 1, Macmillan & Co., 1900, p. 248.
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864 (translated and annotated by Robert Ignatius Le Tellier, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8386-3845-7
- Nicassio, Susan Vandiver, Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective, University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-57972-7
- Romani, Luigi, Teatro alla Scala: cronologia di tutti gli spettacoli rappresentati in questo teatro dal giorno del solenne suo aprimento sino ad oggi, Luigi di Giacomo Pirola, 1862.
- ISBN 0-19-816423-8
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