Elena D'Angri [SEP] voice type
Elena D'Angri
Elena D'Angri Vitturi (also known as Elena Angri) (May 1821 or 1824 in Corfu – 29 August 1886 in Barcelona) was a Greek-born operatic contralto of Italian origin who was active in the mid-19th century in European opera houses and in the United States.
The daughter of Saverio Angri (originally from Naples) and Maria Vitturi di Giovanni, her real name was Nazarena Mattia Elena Catterina. She was baptised on 10 June 1821 at the Roman Catholic in Corfu, Greece.
During the 1855
from Benjamin Lumley's company in 1846), Antonio Tamburini, Elena D'Angri and Frederick Gye. In April 1850 Formes appeared as Caspar in the first Italian "Der Freischütz" in London ("Il franco arciero") with Tamberlik, which Chorley thought 'one of his favourite characters – the type of all he could do best in opera'.
There followed the first London Italian performances of "Gli Ugonotti", with Mario, Grisi, D'Angri, Tamburini and Marai to Formes's Marcel, and "Roberto il