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	Historic Opera - Early Photographs Opera - Disderi
		Alboni, it is true, had the most incomparable voice both as to extension of register as well as sweetness.
		In the later years, whenever Alboni consented to sing, she always did it sitting in the widest chair that could be procured for her, or in the one at her home, which had been made on purpose to contain her immense weight and corpulence.
		"Marietta Alboni was born in 1824 in a small Italian town.
	www.historicopera.com /jearly_disderi_page1.htm (2125 words)

	Subject Listing from Da Capo Music and Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alboni (1823 - 1894) was an Italian contralto who studied with Bertoletti, & so impressed Rossini that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas.
		Alboni was a rival attraction to Jenny Lind at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1847 & sang at Rossini's funeral with Patti.
		Alboni was a rival attraction to Jenny Lind at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1847.
	www.brebner.com.au /~dacapo/histsing.html (1445 words)

	Marietta Alboni / Divas - The Site / The Little Extras / The Opera Divas
		Marietta Alboni / Divas - The Site / The Little Extras / The Opera Divas
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		Walt Whitman was one of her biggest fans, and after a performance of hers at Metropolitan Hall, he wrote of her, “The teeming lady comes, the lustrous orb, Venus contralto, the blooming mother, sister of loftiest gods, Alboni’s self I hear.”
	www.divasthesite.com /Opera_Divas/Marietta_Alboni.htm (160 words)

	Marietta Alboni - LoveToKnow 1911
		MARIETTA ALBONI (1823-1894), Italian opera-singer, was born at Cesena, Romagna, and was trained in music at Bologna, where she became a pupil of Rossini.
		She had a magnificent contralto voice, and in 1843 made her first appearance at La Scala, Milan, being recognized at once as a public favourite.
		This page was last modified 16:28, 28 Jul 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Marietta_Alboni (157 words)

	Marietta - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is more than one meaning of Marietta discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
		We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
		This page was last modified 18:43, 14 Apr 2006.
	11.1911encyclopedia.org /Marietta (67 words)

	Marietta Alboni, Countess Pepoli (née Maria Anna Marzia) (1823-1894), Opera singer
		Marietta Alboni, Countess Pepoli (née Maria Anna Marzia) (1823-1894), Opera singer
		Johanna Maria (Jenny) Lind; Marietta Alboni, Countess Pepoli (née Maria Anna Marzia)
		Marietta Alboni, Countess Pepoli (née Maria Anna Marzia)
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp54429 (137 words)

	Palmer List of Merchant Vessels - Al
		The U.S. ship ALBONI was a medium clipper, designed and built by Mason C. Hill, at Mystic, Connecticut, and launched in October 1852.
		She was named after Marietta Alboni (1826-1894), the celebrated Italian contralto, who was then in the middle of a tour of America.
		The ALBONI was then engaged in trade between New York, Bremen, and Antwerp.
	www.geocities.com /mppraetorius/com-al.htm (2481 words)

	I Hear America Singing: Whitman and Music of His Time by David S. Reynolds
		Among all the opera stars, the one that shone brightest for him was Marietta Alboni, the great contralto who also sang soprano roles.
		He was intrigued by Alboni's appeal to all classes.
		He had long sought a music that was at once sophisticated and populist, and he found it at last in Alboni.
	www.americancomposers.org /whitman2.htm (2423 words)

	Amazon.com: "Marietta Alboni": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The contralto Marietta Alboni studied singing for some time under his guidance, and Rossini inspired in her a positive horror of forced, hard sounds...
		Passage Choiseul was a kind of shrine, for it was there he first heard such renowned singers as Carlotta Grisi, Marietta Alboni, and Henriette Sontag, all of whom he later encountered in America.
		Its heroine would probably reappear to Whitman every time he witnessed a performance of the great contralto Marietta Alboni.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Marietta-Alboni (472 words)

	The Message Bird (1849-1852)
		The establishment of the New York Philharmonic and the New York Harmonic Society, for example, are treated in the Message Bird; the careers of Max Maretzeck and the singers associated with Italian opera productions at the Astor Place Opera House and Castle Garden are discussed in first-hand accounts throughout the journal.
		The brilliant and somewhat sensationalized American debuts of the well-known soprano Jenny Lind and contralto Marietta Alboni are reported in detail and debated at length by correspondents.
		Also treated are a number of now obscure concert performing groups such as Dodworth’s band and the touring Alleghenians, as well as Theodore Eisfeld’s chamber music concerts, and the concerts held at Niblo’s Saloon, the Broadway Tabernacle and the Apollo Rooms.
	www.nisc.com /RIPM/volume_description/MEB.htm (367 words)

	Death in the NYTimes, 9/1852 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Two singers, remembered to this day, came to New York in September of 1852.
		Marietta Alboni, an Italian contralto and pupil of Rossini’s who had sung all over Europe, so delighted Walt Whitman with her performances at Metropolitan Hall that he rhapsodized,
		The soprano Henriette Sontag had a similarly dazzling resume, having premiered Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jul02/history.html (3735 words)

	Magellan - Ship Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ALBONI was a "medium clipper" ship, designed and built by Mason C. Hill, at Mystic, Connecticut, and launched in October 1852.
		The ALBONI was originally employed in the Cape Horn trade, for which she made 4 voyages: 1.
		The ALBONI was then engaged in trade between New York, Bremen, and Antwerp, the voyage on which Eduard Kohlmann arrived being her first in this new service.
	www.cimorelli.com /cgi-bin/magellanscripts/ship_bio1.asp?ShipName=Al (15355 words)

	Rosemary McAndrew: Where Are We Now?: Whitman, Place and the Memory of the Heart
		Norma,” he is referring to Marietta Alboni, the Italian operatic contralto known for her classic Italian bel canto.
		Leaves of Grass his tribute to Alboni is in a section called “Proud Music of the Storm”:
		For Whitman, the place of opera is emotional, as he assigns Booth and Alboni to “life’s rare and blessed bits of hours.” It is, as Kennedy reminds us, “less the retrieval of a bygone time than a recovery of symbolic place” that Whitman undertakes here.
	www.micklestreet.rutgers.edu /pages/Scholarship/McAndrew.htm (1706 words)

	Opera Today : PHILLIPS-MATZ: Washington National Opera 1956-2006
		She discusses the theaters, singers and operas given.
		Some of the singers include the great tenor Mario, his common-law wife, Giulia Grisi, Francesco Tamagno, Enrico Caruso and many others such as Marietta Alboni, Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Luisa Tetrazzini, and Giovanni Zenatello.
		This is a subject that I, among others, would certainly want to know more about.
	www.operatoday.com /content/2006/07/phillipsmatz_wa.php (2023 words)

	The Walt Whitman Archive
		Whitman loved the thought of the human body as its own musical instrument, and his fascination with voice would later manifest itself in his desire to be an orator and in his frequent inclusion of oratorical elements in his poetry.
		For Whitman, listening to opera had the intensity of a "love-grip." In particular, the great coloratura soprano, Marietta Alboni, sent him into raptures: throughout his life she would remain his standard for great operatic performance, and his poem "To a Certain Cantatrice" addresses her as the equal of any hero.
		Whitman once said, after attending an opera, that the experience was powerful enough to initiate a new era in a person's development.
	libr.unl.edu:2000 /whtmntemp/tabbed (4840 words)

	Citta di Castello Appointments & Events tourist information Citta' di Castello Appointments & Events Città di ...
		Organ recitals of Christmas music have been scheduled for every Sunday in December, and on Boxing Day, at 5pm on the 1763 mechanical organ of the Church of San Francesco.
		The Marietta Alboni boys choir of the Alighieri school of Città di Castello will be giving a recital of Christmas music on Boxing Day at 5pm in the Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie, conducted by Marcello Marini.
		The Retrò small antiques and second hand market in Città di Castello runs every third Sunday of the month in Piazza Matteotti.
	en.umbriaonline.com /cittadicastello_events.phtml (936 words)

	Adelina Patti, the Famous Opera Singer
		In the same year she sang at Rossini's funeral in Paris.
		The song was from his Stabat Mater and she sang it as a duet with Marietta Alboni.
		Ten years later she bought Craig-y-Nos, a large early Victorian house and surrounding park beside the river Tawe near Abercrave (Abercraf) in South Wales, UK.
	www.opera-singer.co.uk (629 words)

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		Persiani.--One of the Greatest Executants who ever lived.--Anecdotes of her Italian Tours.--First Appearance in Paris and London.--A Tour through Belgium with Ru-bini.--Anecdote of Prince Metternich.--Further Studies of Persiani's Characteristics as a Singer.--Donizetti composes Another Opera for her.--Her Prosperous Career and retirement from the Stage.--Last Appearance in Paris for Mario's Benefit MARIETTA ALBONI.
		Grisi as the Assyrian Queen and Alboni as _Arsace_ thronged the vast theatre to the very doors, and produced a great excitement on the opening night.
		The subject of our sketch remained faithful to this theatre to the very last, and was on its boards when she took her farewell of the English public.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/7/4/6/17465/17465.txt (19552 words)

	Marietta Alboni at Basic Music - Online Music Guide
		Marietta Alboni at Basic Music - Online Music Guide
		Marietta Alboni was a contralto opera singer and pupil of Gioacchino Rossini.
		She was a rival of Jenny Lind, a soprano.
	www.basicmusic.net /musicians.php?aid=4752 (52 words)

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