Elisabetta Manfredini

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Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani

Antonia Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani (also called Elisa Manfredini ) (born July 2, 1780 in Bologna , † after 1825 ) was an Italian soprano .

Life

Elisabetta Manfredini was the daughter of the composer and music theorist Vincenzo Manfredini and Maria Monari. The Manfredini family of musicians included the composer Francesco Manfredini , Elisabeth's grandfather, her great-grandfather (a trombonist) and an uncle, the famous castrato Giuseppe Manfredini .

Elisabetta was nine years old when she lost her father. In 1809 she began her career as an opera singer, working with Gioachino Rossini . As early as 1812, he used Elisabetta in his opera Ciro in Babilonia in the role of Amira, which Rossini had written for Elisabetta's voice. The opera has been performed several times. Rossini wrote other roles for her, the last being the title role in the opera Adelaide di Borgogna .

Elisabetta Manfredini sang several times at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

In 1819 Elisabetta Manfredini sang in Lucca in the opera La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa and in Medea in Corinto in Bergamo in 1820, both by Johann Simon Mayr , and between 1820 and 1824 in Rossini's operas Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia , Aureliano in Palmira and Zelmira in Bergamo, Perugia, Modena, Macerata and Ferrara.

The lyric art of Elisabetta is still recognized today: Dennis Libby writes that she had a "highly successful career", while Elizabeth Forbes summarizes in her biographical notes with the following statement: "To judge from the music composed for her by Gioachino Rossini , she had a voice of exceptional flexibility "(Eng .:" Judging from the music that G. Rossini composed for her, she must have had a voice of extraordinary modulation ability ").

Roles and stages

(The date given refers to the premiere)

bibliography

  • Giovanni Manfredini, Alcune notizie biografiche di Vincenzo Manfredini , manuscript, I-Baf.
  • Giovanni Manfredini, handwritten letters, I-Fn.
  • Jean Grundy Fanelli, The Manfredini Family of Musicians of Pistoia, 1684-1803 , in: Studi musicali , 26 (1997), pp. 187-232.
  • Leonella Grasso-Caprioli, Manfredini, Elisabetta , in: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani , LXVIII, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 2007.
  • Elizabeth Forbes: Manfredini, Elisabetta . In: Stanley Sadie (ed.): The New Grove dictionary of opera . 3 lon rod. Macmillan, London 1994, ISBN 0-935859-92-6 , pp. 182 .
  • Dennis Libby: Manfredini, Vincenzo . In: Stanley Sadie (ed.): The New Grove dictionary of opera . 3 lon rod. Macmillan, London 1994, ISBN 0-935859-92-6 , pp. 182 .

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Regarding the date of birth, there is an inconsistency between the two articles in the Grove Dictionary of Opera  : the first (written by D. Libby) holds the year 1786 while E. Forbes 1790, which seems more likely.
personal data
SURNAME Manfredini, Elisabetta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manfredini, Elisa; Manfredini-Guarmani, Antonia Elisabetta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH 19th century