Alboni, Marietta
(1826–1894)> VOCALIST
Alboni, Marietta (6 March 1826, Castello; 23 June 1894, d’Avray), vocalist, exhibited a precocious interest in languages and music, and her parents arranged for her to study these subjects in her native village and Bologna. Her intelligence and enthusiasm for music aroused Gioucchino Rossini’s interest in her, and he helped her to learn the contralto roles in his work. She made her debut as Maffeo Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia in 1843 and then moved on to La Scala to appear in Domenico Gaetano…