Article: Alboni, Marietta, in Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905, I, p. 285. Not all sources, however, agree with the author of NIE; surely not Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was very keen on opera, somewhat of a connoisseur. "Alboni was sublime in Norma, last night," he wrote to his best friend Charles Sumner on 15 February 1853, "Would you had been with us, in our snug box." (quoted in Christoph Irmscher, Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200, University of Massachusetts Press, 2009, p. 6. ISBN978-1-55849-584-5). Walt Whitman went even farther likening "Alboni in the children's scene in Norma" to a marvel of Nature, such as "the wild sea-storm" he had once seen "one winter day, off Fire island", or "night-views … on the field, after battles in Virginia, or the peculiar sentiment of moonlight and stars over the great Plains, western Kansas" (Seeing Niagara to advantage, in Complete Prose Works, Kila MT/US, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, pp. 179–180, ISBN978-1-4191-1370-3)
The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in Frederick J. Crowest, Verdi: Man and Musician. His Biography with Especial Reference to his English Experiences, Londra, Milne, 1897, p. 99 (accessible for free online at Open Library.org). Given the minor nature of the part, however, Alboni "[substituted] a cavatina for the original duet of the opera" (the part was sung at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1858).
The character name is not mentioned by Pougin; in his biography of Balfe, however, William Alexander Barret states that the two primadonnas of La Zingara (an Italian version of The bohemian girl, which was given in the first experimental winter season at Her Majesty's Theatre, in 1858) were Alboni and Marietta Piccolomini (Balfe: His Life and Work, London, Remington, 1882, p. 229; accessible for free online at Open Library.org). Considering that the latter certainly performed the soprano leggiero part of Arline (cf., for instance, Music with ease. Retrieved 15 October 2011), it follows that Alboni expectedly interpreted the contralto role of the Gypsy Queen.
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The role of the young musician is not mentioned by Pougin, but was certainly performed at the Royal Italian Opera (Covent Garden) in 1847 and 1848 (Royal Italian Opera, «The Musical World», n. 26, volume XXII, 26 June 1847, p. 445, and n. 25, volume XXIII, 17 June 1848, p. 389; accessible for free online at Books.Google: Volume XXII and Volume XXIII). The latter article seems also to disprove Elizabeth Forbes's statement that Alboni performed in the 1748 season of the Royal Italian Opera the role of Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was sung, instead, by Pauline Viardot (Elizabeth Forbes, Alboni, Marietta, in Laura Macy (ed), The Grove Book of Opera Singers, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 6–7, ISBN978-0-19-533765-5).
Pougin does not mention the character, but it is that of Neocle, transposed for contralto in the Italian version of the opera. It was Alboni's debut role at the Teatro alla Scala (italianOpera. Retrieved 17. October 2011).
The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in the original libretto (cf. italianOpera. Retrieved 17 October 2011); it is a role created by Alboni (Milan, 1844). According to Casaglia, Alboni performed, instead, a would-be role of Eudossia, which is not even stated by the original libretto among the other characters of this opera.
The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in the original libretto (cf. italianOpera. Retrieved 15 October 2011); it is a role created by Alboni (Milan, 1843).
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Beyond her well-known 1848 London performance in the baritone role of Don Carlo, according to the sources reported by the website musicabresciana.it Alboni had already sung in Verdi's Ernani, at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, in 1844. She evidently performed the minor role of Giovanna as the main role of Elvira was taken by soprano Augusta Boccabadati (1821?–1875) (Marcello Conati, Observations on the early reviews of Verdi's "Ernani", in Pierluigi Petrobelli (ed), Ernani yesterday and today : proceedings of the international conference : Modena, Teatro San Carlo, 9–10 december 1984, Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 1989, p. 268, ISBN88-85065-06-6). Boccabadati was the daughter of the more famous Luigia and the elder sister of Virginia [it], who was suggested by Verdi in 1853 as a suitable first performer of Violetta in La traviata (cf. article: Boccabadati, Luigia (Luisa), in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 10, 1968, accessible online at Treccani.it).
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The character name is not mentioned by Pougin; in his biography of Balfe, however, William Alexander Barret states that the two primadonnas of La Zingara (an Italian version of The bohemian girl, which was given in the first experimental winter season at Her Majesty's Theatre, in 1858) were Alboni and Marietta Piccolomini (Balfe: His Life and Work, London, Remington, 1882, p. 229; accessible for free online at Open Library.org). Considering that the latter certainly performed the soprano leggiero part of Arline (cf., for instance, Music with ease. Retrieved 15 October 2011), it follows that Alboni expectedly interpreted the contralto role of the Gypsy Queen.
Beyond her well-known 1848 London performance in the baritone role of Don Carlo, according to the sources reported by the website musicabresciana.it Alboni had already sung in Verdi's Ernani, at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, in 1844. She evidently performed the minor role of Giovanna as the main role of Elvira was taken by soprano Augusta Boccabadati (1821?–1875) (Marcello Conati, Observations on the early reviews of Verdi's "Ernani", in Pierluigi Petrobelli (ed), Ernani yesterday and today : proceedings of the international conference : Modena, Teatro San Carlo, 9–10 december 1984, Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 1989, p. 268, ISBN88-85065-06-6). Boccabadati was the daughter of the more famous Luigia and the elder sister of Virginia [it], who was suggested by Verdi in 1853 as a suitable first performer of Violetta in La traviata (cf. article: Boccabadati, Luigia (Luisa), in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 10, 1968, accessible online at Treccani.it).
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Beyond her well-known 1848 London performance in the baritone role of Don Carlo, according to the sources reported by the website musicabresciana.it Alboni had already sung in Verdi's Ernani, at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, in 1844. She evidently performed the minor role of Giovanna as the main role of Elvira was taken by soprano Augusta Boccabadati (1821?–1875) (Marcello Conati, Observations on the early reviews of Verdi's "Ernani", in Pierluigi Petrobelli (ed), Ernani yesterday and today : proceedings of the international conference : Modena, Teatro San Carlo, 9–10 december 1984, Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 1989, p. 268, ISBN88-85065-06-6). Boccabadati was the daughter of the more famous Luigia and the elder sister of Virginia [it], who was suggested by Verdi in 1853 as a suitable first performer of Violetta in La traviata (cf. article: Boccabadati, Luigia (Luisa), in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 10, 1968, accessible online at Treccani.it).
