Impératrice Sessi
Impératrice Sessi ( 1784 in Rome - 1808 in Florence ) was an Italian opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Marianne Sessi was one of five daughters of the singer Giovanni Sessi. At the age of 10 she came to Vienna with her father, who also trained her, and made her debut there in 1804 with great success. Immediately afterwards she was frenetically celebrated during her guest appearance during the Carnival season in Venice in 1804.
In 1805 she married a brother of her brother-in-law Natorp, an imperial and royal major, but did not call herself Sessi-Natorp because she did not want to be confused with her sister Marianne Sessi . But she was called "La grande Sessi" to distinguish it from her sisters.
In 1806 she sang at the Teatro alla Scala in the world premiere of the opera Adelasia ed Aleramo by Giovanni Simone Mayr .
In Italy, Sessi was “celebrated blasphemously” because of her beauty, but she only reached the age of 24 and died of consumption . She was considered the best singer of the five Sessi sisters.
Her daughter Eugenie Sessi also appeared as a singer.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 962, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Impératrice Sessi in the WeGA
- Impératrice Sessi at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ^ Preußen-Thecla, Volume 5, 1856, p. 201 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sessi, Impératrice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1808 |
| Place of death | Florence |