Rosa Morandi

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Rosa Morandi (born Rosa Paolina Morolli July 5, 1782 in Senigallia ; died May 6, 1824 in Milan ) was an Italian opera singer (soprano).

Life

Rosa Paolina Morolli married her singing teacher, the organist and composer Giovanni Morandi (1777-1856) in 1804, and they had three children. In the same year she made her debut at the Teatro La Vittoria Theater in Montalboddo (now Ostra) as an opera singer. In 1805 she sang at the Carnival in Bologna and in Florence , in 1806 in Trieste , Cremona , Mantua , Parma and Ferrara . In 1807 she sang Livia for the first time at La Scala in Milan in the world premiere of the opera Nè l'un, nè altro by Simone Mayr , also the Ghitta in Camilla by Ferdinando Paër and the Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte . In 1808 she was engaged in the carnival in Rome .

On November 3, 1810, she sang Fanni in the premiere of Gioachino Rossini's opera La cambiale di matrimonio at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice . The Morandis were friends with Gioachino Rossini's parents and advocated the ten-year-old beginner. Between 1810 and 1812 she sang in buffoopers by Giuseppe Farinelli , Stefano Pavesi , Valentino Fioravanti , Pietro Generali , Pietro Carlo Guglielmi , Francesco Morlacchi , Domenico Cimarosa , and in La distruzione di Gerusalemme by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli at the Teatro Valle in Rome . On February 21, 1813 she sang Clotilde in the premiere of the opera La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa by Simone Mayr at the Teatro di sant'Agostino in Genoa . On June 6, 1816 she sang at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice in the world premiere of the opera Malvina by Nicola Vaccai , and in 1819 in Emma di Resburgo by Giacomo Meyerbeer . Rossini wrote the title role for her in the opera Eduardo e Cristina , which premiered on April 24, 1819 at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice.

Between 1813 and 1817 she also appeared at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in L'italiana in Algeri and in The Marriage of Figaro , in several operas by Cimarosa ( Le astuzie femminili , Il matrimonio segreto , Gli Orazi ei Curiazi , Penelope ), Guglielmi ( I due gemelli ), Mayr ( I misteri eleusini ), Paër ( Griselda ), Paisiello ( Il fanatico in berlina , La molinara ), Pavesi ( Ser Marcantonio ) and Vicente Martín y Soler ( La capricciosa corretta ). In 1818 she was at the carnival in Cremona and Brescia and in autumn in Trieste .

In 1822 she took part in the world premiere of the opera Adele ed Elmerico by Saverio Mercadante at La Scala in Milan and on October 26, 1822 in Gaetano Donizetti's Chiara e Serafina . She also sang Rossini's Matilde di Shabran there . In the following year, 1823, she fell ill, but continued to work as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello and as Amenaide in Tancredi . She had the title role in the opera Agnese by Paër. Also in 1824 she had engagements in Milan. Rossini was about to compose a second opera for her under the title Isabella ed Enrico when she suddenly died of encephalitis . The librettist Felice Romani dedicated the verses to her: "... Puro cor, casta mente, onore e zelo / Di madre amante e di fedel consorte / Avran potuto disarmar la morte / Ma la bell 'alma era aspettato in cielo".

literature

  • Article Rosa Morandi , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , CD, 2000, pp. 16992–16994
  • Rita Stark: Rosa Morandi: the swan of the Paris Opera, a biography . Chapel Hill, NC: Professional Press, 1998
  • Giuseppe Radiciotti : Celebrità canore d'altri tempi. Rosa Morandi (1782-1824) , in: Il Pianoforte , 1924, pp. 252-255
  • Giuseppe Radiciotti: Lettere inedite di celebri musicisti annotate e precedute dalle biografie di Pietro, Giovanni e Rosa Morandi a cui sono dirette . Milan: Ricordi, 1892

Web links

Commons : Rosa Morandi  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Lora Francesco: Morolli, Rosa Paolina , at treccani.it
  2. ^ A b c Armin Schuster: The Italian operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer . Vol. 2. From “Romilda e Costanza” to “L'esule di Granata”. Marburg: Tectum, 2003 Zugl .: Gießen, Univ., Diss., 2001, p. 104ff.
  3. ↑ Felice Romani quoted in Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, p. 16993


personal data
SURNAME Morandi, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morolli, Rosa Paolina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Senigallia
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1824
Place of death Milan