Maria Anna Braunhofer [SEP] voice type
Maria Anna Braunhofer
Maria Anna Braunhofer (15 January 1748 – 20 June 1819) was an operatic soprano, who created several roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
She was the daughter of F. J. Braunhofer, organist at Mondsee. She trained as a singer in Venice (1761–64) on the expense of Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach and was employed at the Salzburg court. She created the part of "Die göttliche Gerechtigkeit" (Divine Justice) in Mozart's "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots" and was "Giacinta
production of "Die Fledermaus".
Although Sills' voice type was characterized as a "lyric coloratura", she took a number of heavier spinto and dramatic coloratura roles more associated with heavier voices as she grew older, including Bellini's "Norma", Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia" (with Susanne Marsee as Orsini) and the latter composer's "Three Queens", "Anna Bolena", "Maria Stuarda" and Elisabetta in "Roberto Devereux" (opposite Plácido Domingo in the title part). She