Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan [SEP] voice type
Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan
Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan (1800–1865) was a French operatic soprano.
Life.
Caradori-Allan was born at the Casa Palatina, Milan, in 1800. Her father, Baron de Munck, was an Alsatian, who served in the French army, while her mother, whose maiden name was Caradori, was a native of Saint Petersburg. According to the "New American Cyclopedia", and Moore's "Complete Encyclopaedia of Music", her father died when she
noblemen, was associated with the management of the undertaking. The strength of the company was increased by the addition of Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan and Pierre Begrez. The productions of the year were Rossini's "Pietro l'eremita" (i.e. "Mosè in Egitto") and "Otello", Giuseppe Mosca's "I pretendenti delusi", and Giovanni Pacini's "Il barone di Dolsheim", both of which last failed. In spite of this, the season was on the whole successful. In 1823 the management