Carolina Sessi

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Carolina Sessi (also: Karolina ; * 1796 [Kutsch-Riemens: 1799] - in Vienna ? † October 1, 1874 in Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi, district of Massa Lubrense ) was an Italian opera singer with a soprano voice .

Life

Victoria Sessi was one of five daughters of the singer Giovanni Sessi . She worked mainly in Italy. In 1811 she married the patrician Mario Spinelli in Naples. In 1812 she was a member of the Vienna Court Theater. She then sang at the Teatro del Fondo in Naples for some time before giving up the stage.

literature

  • Constant von Wurzbach: Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire: containing the life sketches of the memorable people who lived in the imperial state and its crown lands from 1750 to 1850. - Vienna: Zamarski [et al.], 1856-1891. P. 157 books.google.de
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Carolina Sessi . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 963 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Slovník naučný . Kober & Markgraf, Prague 1860-1890, p. 265; books.google.de
  • Ladies Conversations Lexicon . P. 201
  • Anton Köhler (Hrsg.): Curiosities and Memorabilia Lexicon of Vienna . Vienna 1846. Volume 2, p. 333.
  • Patricia Adkins Chiti: Almanacco delle virtuose, primedonne, compositrici e musiciste d'Italia . Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1991. pp. 77, 320.
  • Illustrated conversation lexicon . Q, R, S, Volume 7. Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1878. Sp. 1054.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sessi (Vittoria and Carolina) . In: Gerhard Robert Walther von Coeckelberghe-Dützele: Curiosities and memorabilia lexicon of Vienna . 1846, Volume 2, p. 333, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  2. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. Walter de Gruyter, 2012, p. 4365 books.google.de
  3. ↑ L'araldo almanacco nobiliare del napoletano, stabilimento tipografico A. Trani, 1915, p. 230 books.google.de
  4. ^ Genealogy of the Spinelli family. In: Enciclopedia genealogica del Mediterraneo ; accessed on May 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ Catalog of the portrait collection of the kuk General-Intendanz of the kk Hoftheater: at the same time a biographical auxiliary book in the field of theater and music  in the  text archive - Internet Archive .
  6. ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie generale de la musique. Volume 8. Brussels 1844, p. 195 ( full text in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Sessi, Carolina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sessi, Karolina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1796 or 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1874
Place of death Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi, district of Massa Lubrense