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ALBONI, MARIETTA (1823-1894) , Italian opera- singer
Rossini
appearance at La Scala, Milan , being recognized at once as a public favourite. In England her reputation was established by her appearance at Covent Garden in 1847, and she had brilliant success all over Europe in the leading operatic roles; in 1853 she repeated these triumphs in the United States. Indeed, with the exception of Malibran,she had no compeer among the contraltos of the century, the old Italian school of singing finding in her a really great
Count A. Pepoli, who died in 1866, and secondly (1877) a French officer, M. Zieger; she lived in Paris after her first marriage
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