Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani [SEP] voice type
Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani
Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani (2 June 1780 – after 1828) was an Italian opera singer best known for having created the leading soprano roles in four of Rossini's operas, roles which he wrote specifically for her voice. She was born Antonia Elisabetta Manfredini in Bologna and was the daughter of the composer and music theorist Vincenzo Manfredini. After her stage debut in 1810 when she sang in the premiere of Stefano Pavesi's "Il trionfo di Gedeone" at Bologna's Teatro del Corso, she went on
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- Caprioli, Leonella Grasso (2007). "Manfredini (Manfredini Guarmani), Elisabetta (Elisa)", "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani", Volume 68. Treccani
- Forbes, Elisabeth (1992/2008). "Manfredini-Guarmani, Elisabetta" in Laura Williams Macy (ed.) "The Grove Book of Opera Singers", p. 300. Oxford University Press. (The entry was originally published in Stanley Sadie (ed.) (1992