FERRARI, Carlotta

Italian pianist, poetess, singer, writer and composer. Lodi, January 27, 1837; Bologna, November 23, 1907. She studied the piano and voice under Strepponi and Panzini and composition under Mazzucato at the Milan Conservatory from 1844 to 1850. When she completed her first opera Ugo at the age of 20, she had to pay the entire expense of the first performance herself, because of objections that she was a woman. However, it was a success and later her works were in great...