Marietta Gazzaniga [SEP] voice type
Marietta Gazzaniga
Marietta Gazzaniga (1824 – 2 January 1884) was an Italian operatic soprano.
Gazzaniga was born in Voghera and studied singing with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan. Her debut season was in 1840 in Voghera where she sang Jane Seymour in Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" and Romeo in Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi".
She sang the title role in the premiere of Verdi's "Luisa Miller" at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 1849, and a year later she sang Lina
, finely located, beautifully ornamented" but went on to lament "all that lacks is a few singers to render it 'the thing'." The theatre had its first opera production, and what was billed as its formal opening, a month later on February 25, 1857, with a performance by the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company of Verdi's "Il trovatore" starring Marietta Gazzaniga as Leonora, Alessandro Amodio as Count di Luna, Zoë Aldini as Azucena, Pasquale Brignoli as Manrico, and Max Maretzek conducting.