Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini

Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini as Elpinice in Ipermestra von Hasse (Dresden 1751)

Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini as Tusnelda, wife of the title hero in Arminio von Hasse (Dresden 1753)

Prima donna Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini as Narsea in Solimano von Hasse (Dresden 1753)

Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini as Aristea in L'Olimpiade von Hasse (Dresden 1756)

Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini (born December 26, 1723 in Milan ; died June 30, 1760 in Prague ) was an Italian opera singer with an alto voice .

Life

Albuzzi-Todeschini was engaged at the Dresden Opera on January 1, 1750 . Together with Regina Mingotti , she was the successor to Faustina Bordoni and was considered "Prima Donna in more than one place". Contemporaries adored her for her "full, sonorous and extraordinarily trained voice [and] her masterful and adorable game". She was hired in 1750 for 2000 thalers , three years later she earned 3000 thalers in the year.

Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl fell in love with the singer and had a garden pavilion built for her in the garden on the wall in front of the Wilsdruffer Tor , the so-called "Brühlsche Rotunda" (also called "Albuzzis Büchse" by the people mockingly). Albuzzi-Todeschini stayed in Dresden after the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and only went to Milan in December 1758 with her mother, her husband Antonio Schreivogel-Todeschini and their two children. She died after a long illness in 1760 in the inn "Zum Einhorn" in Prague and was buried on May 25, 1760 in Prague.

legend

Johann Georg Theodor Grasse (1814–1885) reproduced an orally transmitted legend about the singer in his work The Treasure of Legends of the Kingdom of Saxony from 1855:

“ It is said to have been otherwise on the Brühl's terrace as well . Occasionally one wants to see a white-clad woman coming from the Brühl palace, who used to go to the oreillon opposite the Torniamenti coffee house and jump over the railing into the water. The people told themselves that it was the spirit of Count Brühl's maitress, Albuzzi (known by the people as the Alputze), who had once put an end to her life at that point and could now not come to rest. "

literature

Albuzzi-Todeschini, Teresa , in: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, p. 266

Web links

Commons : Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Operas by Hasse - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Friedrich August Freiherr ô Byrn: Giovanna Casanova and the Comici italiani at the Polish-Saxon court . In: Hubert Ermisch (Hrsg.): New archive for Saxon history and antiquity . tape 1 . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1880, p. 301 ( copy from SLUB Dresden ).
^ Moritz Fürstenau : On the history of music and theater at the court of the electors of Saxony and kings of Poland Friedrich August I. (August II.) And Friedrich August II. (August III.) . Rudolf Kuntze's publishing house, Dresden 1862, p. 272 f . ( Copy in Google Book Search).
↑ Quoted from Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : The treasure of legends of the Kingdom of Saxony . Schönfeld's Verlag, Dresden 1855, p. 99–100 ( copy in Google Book Search). Also included in the 2nd, expanded edition, 1874, Volume 1, p. 115 ( full text in Wikisource ).

personal data
SURNAME	Albuzzi-Todeschini, Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milan
DATE OF DEATH	June 30, 1760
Place of death	Prague

[Ermisch-1] Friedrich August Freiherr ô Byrn: Giovanna Casanova and the Comici italiani at the Polish-Saxon court . In: Hubert Ermisch (Hrsg.): New archive for Saxon history and antiquity . tape 1 . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1880, p. 301 ( copy from SLUB Dresden ).

[Fürstenau-2] Moritz Fürstenau : On the history of music and theater at the court of the electors of Saxony and kings of Poland Friedrich August I. (August II.) And Friedrich August II. (August III.) . Rudolf Kuntze's publishing house, Dresden 1862, p. 272 f . ( Copy in Google Book Search).

[3] Quoted from Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : The treasure of legends of the Kingdom of Saxony . Schönfeld's Verlag, Dresden 1855, p. 99–100 ( copy in Google Book Search). Also included in the 2nd, expanded edition, 1874, Volume 1, p. 115 ( full text in Wikisource ).