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Anna Morichelli Bosello

Anna Morichelli Bosello (; 1745–1800) was an Italian soprano, known for her rivalry with Brigida Banti.

Life

Italy

Anna Morichelli was born at Reggio in 1760. Being endowed by nature with a pure and flexible voice, she was instructed by Gaetano Guadagni, one of the best sopranists of the day. She made her début at Parma in 1779 with great éclat. After singing at Venice and Milan, she appeared at Vienna in 1781–2, and with difficulty obtained leave from the Emperor to return and fulfil an engagement at Turin.

Paris

She continued to sing at the chief theatres of Italy, until Giovanni Battista Viotti engaged her for the Théâtre de Monsieur, in Paris, in 1790, where she remained during the years 1791–2. Here she was very highly appreciated, even by such good judges as Pierre Garat.

London

With this reputation she came to London in 1792, with Brigida Banti. Lorenzo da Ponte, the poet of the London Opera-House, gives a severe description of these two singers in his Memoirs: he calls them 'equals in vice, passions, and dishonesty', though differing in the methods by which they sought to accomplish their designs:

To musical amateurs, such as Lord Mount-Edgcumbe, Morichelli seemed far below her rival:

Decline

Morichelli returned to Italy in 1794, and soon after retired from the stage.

See also

References

Sources

English

  • Da Ponte, Lorenzo (1959). '. Abbott, Elisabeth (trans.). Livingston, Arthur (ed.). New York, NY: Orion Press. pp. 126–130.
  • Libby, Denis, and Link, Dorothea (2002). <nowiki>"Morichelli [Bosello, Anna"</nowiki>]. Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press.
  • Marshall, Julian (1900). . In Grove, George (ed.). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 2. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited. pp. 365–366.
  • Rice, John A. "Twin Portraits: Morichelli and Martín y Soler in Vienna, 1787." Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America, 2017, 11–12
  • Russo, Joseph Louis (1922). '. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. pp. 89–91.

Italian

  • Bustico, Guido (1922). '. Novara: «La Tipografica» – Soc. Anon. Coop. p. 33
  • Caprioli, Leonella Grasso (2012). "Morichelli, Anna". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 76. Treccani.it.
  • Chiappori, Giuseppe (1818). '. Milan: Giovanni Silvestri. pp. 23, 28, 29, 36, 37, 124, 231, 241.
  • Gervasoni, Carlo (1812). '. Parma: Blanchon. pp. 191–192.
  • Pasolini-Zanelli, G. (1888). '. Faenza: Pietro Conti. pp. 24–32, 103.
  • Wiel, Taddeo (1897). '. Venice: Fratelli Visentini. pp. lxvii, 350, 356, 357, 358, 368, 466, 467, 473, 474, 481, 482, 486, 494, 559, 572.
  • '. Torino: Onorato Derossi, 1791. p. v.