Gemma Bellincioni

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Gemma Bellincioni
Gemma Bellincioni

Gemma Cesira Matilda Bellincioni (born August 18, 1864 in Como , † April 23, 1950 in Naples ) was an Italian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

The daughter of bassist Cesare Bellincioni and contralto Carlotta Soroldoni was trained by her mother and studied in Naples with Giovanni Corsi and Luigia Ponte dell'Armi . She made her debut in 1880 at the Teatro della Società Filarmonica in Naples in the opera Il segreto della duchessa by Giuseppe dell'Orefice . Two years later she appeared at the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon alongside Enrico Tamberlick as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto .

After a tour of Spain she appeared in 1885 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome in Verdi's La traviata and in the 1885–86 season at La Scala in Milan as Isabella in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable . In 1886 she married the tenor Roberto Stagno in Buenos Aires , with whom she subsequently appeared together, for example in 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome in the world premiere of the operas Labilia by Nicola Spinelli and Rudello by Vincenzo Ferroni and in 1895 in Trieste in Nozze Istriane by Antonio Smareglia .

Above all, Bellinconi made a name for herself as an interpreter of verismo operas . For example, she sang Santuzza at the world premiere of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, in 1892 at the world premiere of Pierantonio Tasca's opera A Santa Lucia at the Berlin Krolloper and in 1898 (together with Enrico Caruso ) at the world premiere of the opera Fedora by Umberto Giordano in Teatro Lirico in Milan.

In 1901 she sang the title role in the opera Lorenza , which Edoardo Mascheroni had composed for her, at the Teatro Constanzi . In 1904 she sang at the Teatro Lirico in the world premiere of Gabriel Dupont's La Cabrera , in 1905 she took part in the world premiere of Leopoldo Mugnone's Vita Brettone at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

Her interpretation of the title role in the opera Sapho by Jules Massenet , which she sang at the Italian premiere in Milan in 1898 and with which she left the stage in 1911, was famous . Another of her star roles was Salomé in Richard Strauss ' opera, which she sang for the first time at the Italian premiere in 1906. Bellincioni u. a. in Vienna, Berlin, Budapest, Monte Carlo, Paris, Warsaw, Dresden, Prague, Hamburg, Buenos Aires, London, Odessa, Bucharest and Amsterdam.

From 1911 to 1915 she directed an opera studio in Berlin, after Italy entered the war she went to Holland, where she was largely forgotten and lived in financial distress. In 1924 she appeared again as Santuzza, Tosca and Carmen before the Italian government set up an opera studio for her in Rome, which she directed until 1931. After a year in Vienna, she taught at the Naples Conservatory until shortly before her death.

Bellincioni published her memoirs under the title Io ed il palcoscenico in 1920. Her sister Saffo Frigiotti became known as a mezzo-soprano, her daughter Bianca Stagno Bellincioni as a soprano.

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