Adriana Ferrarese del Bene

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Adriana Ferrarese del Bene ~ 1785

Adriana Ferrarese del Bene , actually Adriana Gabrieli (born September 19, 1759 in Valvasone ( Friuli ), † after 1803 in Venice ) was an Italian opera singer (soprano).

Life

Ferrarese was a student at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice from 1778 to 1782 , where she played roles in various oratorios. In 1782 she ran away with the son of the papal envoy in Venice, Luigi del Bene, whom she married a little later. From 1785 to 1787 she sang in London, including in two opera series by Luigi Cherubini . On October 13, 1788 she made her debut at the Vienna Burgtheater with the title role in the opera L'arbore di Diana by Vicente Martín y Soler . Her soprano register was incredibly high and her voice surprisingly deep, as had never been heard in Vienna , as a contemporary newspaper note noted. Ferrarese del Bene was one of the best-known sopranos of Mozart's time, she sang the role of Susanna in the revival of the Marriage of Figaro , including Mozart's two new arias Un moto di gioia KV 579 and Al desio di chi t'adora KV 577 composed. Above all, she was the first to play Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (1790). The singer was particularly encouraged by the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte , with whom she maintained a love affair at times. After da Pontes left Vienna, Ferrarese del Bene also left the Danube metropolis. For the next two years she sang in Warsaw , and in the following years she worked again at various Italian theaters.

In older literature, Ferrarese del Bene was occasionally equated with the singer Francesca Gabrieli, called La Ferrarese, whom Charles Burney heard several times in Venice in 1770, as he reports in his diary of a musical journey . The sister of the famous Caterina Gabrielli was also called Francesca Gabrielli; she often sang the roles of seconda donna alongside Caterina. This confusion probably goes back to the music lexicographer Ernst Ludwig Gerber .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Bletschacher , Mozart and da Ponte: Chronicle of an Encounter , Salzburg 2004, p. 261
  2. ^ Daniel Brandenburg:  Ferrarese, Adriana. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0 , Sp. 1026-1027 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  3. ^ Charles Burney: Diary of a musical journey through France and Italy at Zeno.org .
  4. Patricia Lewy Gidwitz, John A. Rice, 'Ferrarese, Adriana', in The Grove Book of Opera Singers , Laura Williams Macy (ed), 2001, pp. 157–158.