Adelaide Tosi was an Italian

Italy

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 opera

Opera

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tic soprano

Soprano

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Born in Milan

Milan

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, Tosi studied with Girolamo Crescentini

Girolamo Crescentini

Girolamo Crescentini was a noted Italian singer castrato , a singing teacher and a composer.-Biography:He studied in Bologna with the noted teacher Lorenzo Gibelli and made his debut in 1783, quite advanced in years as a castrato...

 before making her professional

Professional

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 opera

Opera

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 debut in her native city

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 in 1821. She portrayed Azema

Azéma

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 in the premiere

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 of Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...

's L'esule di Granata

L'esule di Granata

L'esule di Granata is a melodramma in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The Italian libretto was by Felice Romani based on the rivalries between the Zegridi and the Abenceraggi factions in the last days of the kingdom of Granada...

at La Scala

La Scala

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 on 12 March

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 1822. On 7 April

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 1828, she portrayed Bianca

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 in Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...

's Bianca e Fernando

Bianca e Fernando

Bianca e Fernando is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.There are two versions of this opera: the first, entitled Bianca e Gernando has a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, after Bianca e Fernando alla tomba di Carlo IV, duca di Agrigento by Carlo...

for the grand opening of the Teatro Carlo Felice

Teatro Carlo Felice

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 in Genoa

Genoa

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. She returned to that house

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 later that season

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 to sing Pamira in Gioachino Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe

Le siège de Corinthe

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. She went on to portray roles in three world

World

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 premieres of operas by Gaetano Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

 at the Teatro di San Carlo

Teatro di San Carlo

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 in Naples

Naples

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: Argelia in L'esule di Roma

L'esule di Roma

L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto is a melodramma eroico, or heroic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Domenico Gilardoni wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's Il proscritto romano, in its turn based on Louis Charles Caigniez and Debotière's Androclès ou Le lion...

(1828), Neala in Il paria (1829), and Elisabetta in Il castello di Kenilworth

Il castello di Kenilworth

Il castello di Kenilworth is a melodramma serio or tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto after Victor Hugo's play Amy Robsart and Eugene Scribe's play Leicester, in its turn after Scott's novel Kenilworth...

(1829). On 21 August 1836 she portrayed the title role in the premiere of Donizetti's Betly

Betly

Betly is a dramma giocoso in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian libretto after Eugène Scribe and Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville's libretto for Adolphe Adam's opéra comique Le châlet, in its turn based on Goethe's Singspiel Jery und...

at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples

Naples

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. She died in Naples

Naples

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at the age of 59.