Eliza Biscaccianti [SEP] voice type
Eliza Biscaccianti
Eliza Biscaccianti (1824 in Boston – July 1896 in Paris) was an American operatic soprano from Boston, Massachusetts. Born Eliza Ostinelli, she was the daughter of pianist Sophia Hewitt Ostinelli, the only woman to have ever been employed as an organist and accompanist by Boston's Handel and Haydn Society and the second musician ever to perform the work of Beethoven in Boston, and Louis Ostinelli, a native of Italy who became a second violinist with, and later a conductor of, the Handel and Haydn Society.
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In 1853 Biscaccianti performed in operas in South America, including in Lima, Peru. After retiring from the stage she taught singing in Milan. In her elder years she lived in a home for artists in Paris that was supported by a foundation in memory of Rossini.
Death.
By the time of her death in 1896, according to Ammer, Eliza Biscaccianti died impoverished at the age of seventy-two at the Rossini Foundation Home for Musicians in Paris.”
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