Celeste Coltellini

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Self-Portrait with Paisiello and a Third Person (1780s)

Celeste Coltellini (born November 26, 1760 in Livorno ; died July 28, 1828 in Capodimonte , Kingdom of Naples ) was an Italian opera singer (mezzo-soprano).

Life

Celeste Coltellini was one of several musically gifted daughters of the poet and librettist Marco Coltellini (1719–77), her sister Anna Coltellini also made a stage career in Naples from 1782–94.

She received her musical training from Giovanni Battista Mancini and from the castrato and pedagogue Giovanni Manzuoli . In 1780 she had her first successes at La Scala in Milan , including as Violanta in La Frascatana by Paisiello . From 1781 she worked at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples .

In 1783 she was engaged by Emperor Joseph II of Austria with a salary of one thousand ducats at the Vienna Opera , where she stayed until 1788. During her time in Vienna she sang in Francesco Bianchi's opera La Villanella rapita at the Burgtheater, for which Mozart composed a quartet and a trio ( KV 479 and 480) in 1785 , in which Vincenzo Calvesi , Stefano Mandini and Francesco Bussani also appeared. On February 7, 1786, she sang the Tonina at the side of Nancy Storace in Antonio Salieri's Prima la musica e poi le parole . In Martín y Soler's Il burbero di buon cuore she sang Lucilla.

After returning to Naples in 1790 she created the title role in Paisiello's opera Nina . In 1792 she married the Swiss-Neapolitan banker Jean-Georges Meuricoffre (1750-1806), retired from the stage and held an artistic salon in her house .

Between 1791 and 1805 she was repeatedly expelled from Naples by the effects of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars of Conquest with her husband's French family, they stayed in Genoa and from 1800 in Marseille .

Coltellini also drew; ten sketchbooks from her have survived, which are owned by the family and were only released for music research in the 21st century.

literature

  • KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Saur, 2004, pp. 4529f. ISBN 3-89853-433-2
  • Carola Bebermeier: Celeste Coltellini (1760-1828). Life pictures of a singer and painter . Cologne: Böhlau, 2015 Diss. Uni Oldenburg, 2014 [not (yet) used here]
  • Carola Bebermeier: materials, places and memories. Using the example of the singer Celeste Coltellini . In: Lena Nieper; Julian Schmitz (ed.): Music as a medium of memory. Memory - history - present . Bielefeld: transcript, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3279-8
  • Carola Bebermeier and Melanie Unseld: Primadonna with sketchbook. Celeste Coltellini meets Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in Vienna . In: Susanne Rode-Breymann (ed.): Women invent, distribute, collect, evaluate music. Workshop reports from the Research Center for Music and Gender . Hanover: Werhahn, 2015.
  • Elio Capriati: Ritratto di famiglia: i Meuricoffre . Bologna: Millennium, 2003 ISBN 88-901198-4-5
  • Celeste Iesue:  Coltellini, Celeste. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 27:  Collenuccio – Confortini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982.
  • Daniel Brandenburg:  Coltellini, Celeste. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4 , Sp. 1417–1418 ( online edition , subscription required for full access) (Lemma Coltellini from Sp. 1415)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Gugitz (ed.): Memories of the Venetian Lorenzo da Ponte . Volume 1. Aretz, Dresden 1924, p. 393
  2. ↑ "Souvenirs" - Celeste Coltellini's sketchbooks as sources of cultural history , exhibition at the Research Center for Music and Gender (fmg) at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , as of January 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Coltellini, Celeste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1828
Place of death Capodimonte , Kingdom of Naples