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Giuseppina (given Name)
Giuseppina is an Italian feminine given name. It is the Italian version of the English name Josephine. Variations *Feminine: Giuseppa, Geppa, Geppina, Beppa, Beppina, Peppa, Peppina, Pina, Pinella, Pinetta, Pinuccia, Giusi, Giusy. *Masculine: Giuseppe. People * Giuseppina Bersani (born 1949), Italian fencer *Giuseppa Bolognara Calcagno (1826–1884), Italian revolutionary * Giuseppina Bozzacchi (1853–1870), Italian ballerina *Giuseppina Cirulli (born 1959), Italian hurdler * Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini (1878–1944), Italian soprano *Giuseppina Grassini (1773–1850), Italian contralto * Giuseppina Huguet (1871–1951), Spanish soprano * Giuseppina Leone (born 1934), Italian athlete *Giuseppina Morlacchi (1846–1886), Italian-American ballerina * Giuseppina Pasqua (1855–1930), Italian opera singer * Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis (1800–1853), Italian soprano *Giuseppina Strepponi Clelia Maria Josepha (Giuseppina) Strepponi ( Lodi, 8 September 1815 – Villanova sull'Ard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Grassini
Gioseppa Maria Camilla, commonly known as Giuseppina (or also Josephina) Grassini (8 April 1773 – 3 January 1850) was a noted Italian dramatic contralto, and a singing teacher. She was also known for her affairs with Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington. She sang in various productions by composers such as Cimarosa, Cherubini and Zingarelli. Biography After growing up under the musical guidance of her mother, an amateur violinist, and Domenico Zucchinetti in Varese, and Antonio Secchi in Milan, Grassini made her stage début in 1789 in Parma singing in Guglielmi's ''La pastorella nobile'', and the following year at Milan's La Scala in three ''opere buffe'' including Guglielmi's ''La bella pescatrice'' and Salieri's '' La cifra''. These first comic performances were not a great success, and Grassini was driven to resume the study of singing and to turn to drama. Beginnings and Italian career apex From 1792 she returned fully to the stage in the theatres of Vicenza, V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina
''Giuseppina'' is a 1960 short British documentary film produced by James Hill, which was filmed in 1959, in Mandriole, Emilia-Romagna, near Ravenna in the north east of Italy. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Production of the film was sponsored by the British Petroleum company (BP), which also distributed the film. The BP webpage summarizes the film as, "set at an Italian petrol station where various characters pass through on their onward journey, while entertaining and playing with the attendant's daughter, Giuseppina." In the 1960s and early 1970s, ''Giuseppina'' was broadcast 185 times on British television as a trade test colour film.Keys, Andrew (2007)."The Statistician's Guide to Trade Test Colour Films" webpage of the "Test Card Circle" website archived at WebCite fro18 June 2008. Excerpts were also shown on ''Vision On'', the BBC programme for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. It was released as an extra on the BFI Flipside DVD releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Vadalà
Giuseppina Vadalà () (Messina, 1824–Santiago de Chile, October 7, 1914) was an Italian patriot. Biography Revolutionary activity Giuseppina Vadalà fought together with her sister Paolina during the Siege of Messina, the revolt for Italian unification that took place in Messina on September 5, 1848. Messinese by birth, she was the daughter of the patriot Pietro Vadalà and wife of Orazio Nicosia, another fighter who joined the revolt against the Bourbons of Naples. Giuseppina had three children: Totò, Orazio, and Bianca. When her elder son Totò grew up, he decided to move to Naples, where he threw himself heart and soul into the cause of Italian unification. When her daughter Bianca was grown to womanhood, she married Giovanni Bovio, a noted philosopher and republican politician. The Italian government awarded Vadalà the Silver Medal of Military Valor for her part in pro-unification battles during the years 1848–1849 and 1860. Castroreale and Cristo Lungo According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Tuissi
Giuseppina Tuissi, better known as Gianna (also ''La Staffetta Gianna''; 23 June 1923 – 23 June 1945) was an Italian communist and partisan during World War II. She was part of the 52nd Brigata Garibaldi "Luigi Clerici". From September 1944, she was a collaborator of the partisan Luigi Canali (known as the captain ''Neri'') and, with him, had an important role in the arrest and the execution of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Early life Giuseppina was born in 1923 in Abbiategrasso, in the Province of Milan. She lived and worked as laborer in Baggio, a Milan suburb. Partisan In 1943, she started serving as a partisan courier, using the pseudonym "Gianna". On 6 January 1945 she was arrested with Canali in Lezzeno by the members of the XI Black Brigade "Cesare Rodini" and tortured for 23 days. After this period, she was transferred to SS headquarters in Monza by a Gestapo officer, Captain Vernig, who pitied her condition and was impressed by her bravery. On Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Strepponi
Clelia Maria Josepha (Giuseppina) Strepponi ( Lodi, 8 September 1815 – Villanova sull'Arda, 14 November 1897) was a nineteenth-century Italian operatic soprano of great renown and the second wife of composer Giuseppe Verdi. She is often credited with having contributed to Verdi's first successes, starring in a number of his early operas, including the role of Abigaille in the world premiere of '' Nabucco'' in 1842. A highly gifted singer, Strepponi excelled in the bel canto repertoire and spent much of her career portraying roles in operas by Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, often sharing the stage with tenor Napoleone Moriani and baritone Giorgio Ronconi. Donizetti wrote the title role of his opera ''Adelia'' specifically for Strepponi. She was described as possessing a "limpid, penetrating, smooth voice, seemly action, a lovely figure; and to Nature's liberal endowments she adds an excellent technique"; her "deep inner feeling" was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Ronzi De Begnis
Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis (born Giuseppina Ronzi; Milan 11 January 1800 – died, Florence, 7 June 1853) was an Italian soprano opera singer famous for the roles written for her by the prominent composers of the 1820s and 1830s. Her father, Gaspare, was a prominent ballet dancer and choreographer, and her mother, Antonia, a ballerina. Her brothers Stanislao and Pollione were opera singers. As a singer, she made her debut in Naples at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in 1814 in Giovanni Cordella's ''L'Avaro'', followed by important engagements in Bologna in 1816, also appearing in Genoa, Florence; in 1817 as Giulia ''La Vestale'', and in Bergamo. She married Italian bass Giuseppe de Begnis (1793–1849) when she was only 16. The marriage lasted only a few years and the two separated in 1825. Personality Her figure has been described by her contemporaries, including Donizetti, as fat and voluptuous; a critic of ''Teatri di Milano'' wrote that "Ronzi was nevertheless a very beautiful fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Pasqua
Giuseppina Pasqua (24 October 1851 – 24 February 1930) was an Italian opera singer who performed throughout Italy and Europe from the late 1860s through the early 1900s. She began her career as a soprano when she was only 13, but later retrained her voice as a mezzo-soprano. She sang in several world premieres, but is most remembered today for having created the role of Mistress Quickly in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Falstaff''. The composer wrote the role specifically for her and dedicated the act 2 aria "Giunta all' albergo" to Pasqua. She was married to the baritone Astorre Giacomelli. Biography Giuseppina Pasqua was born in Perugia to a prosperous family. She studied at the music conservatory in Perugia under Ulisse Corticelli and made her professional opera debut at the city's Teatro Morlacchi in 1868 singing the coloratura soprano role of Oscar in Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera''. After further study with Marietta Piccolomini, she made her house debut at the in Palermo as Marguer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Morlacchi
Giuseppina Antonia "Josephine" Morlacchi Omohundro (October 8, 1836 – July 23, 1886) was an Italian American ballerina, dancer, and actress. She introduced the can-can to the American stage. Biography Morlacchi was born in Milan in 1836 and attended dance school at La Scala at the age of six. She debuted on the stage in 1856 at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. In a short time, she became a well-known dancer, touring the continent and England. In Lisbon, she met noted artist and manager Don Juan (John) De Pol, who persuaded her to go to America and perform in his ''DePol Parisian Ballet''. In October 1867, she made her American debut at ''Banvard's Museum'' in New York City, performing ''The Devil's Auction''. She became an immense success, and DePol took the show to Boston. During her rise to fame, DePol insured her legs for $100,000, after which newspapers claimed that Morlacchi was 'more valuable than Kentucky'. On January 6, 1868, the company played at the ''Theatre Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Leone
Giuseppina "Giusy" Leone (born 21 December 1934) is a retired Italian sprinter. She competed in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m events at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and reached the final on five occasions. In 1960 she won a bronze medal in the 100 m. . sports-reference.com Achievements See also * Italian Athletics Championships - Multi winners * Italy national relay teamReferences External l ...
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Giuseppina Huguet
Giuseppina Huguet (1871–1951) was a Catalan operatic soprano with a lyrical voice who sang throughout Europe prior to World War I. Huguet was born in 1871 and registered on official documents as "Josefina" Huguet. Her first music teacher was Francisco Bonet in Barcelona, where she soon made her operatic debut as Lakmé at the Teatro Liceu of Barcelona. She subsequently toured several countries, including some South American nations. She performed, too, with success in Italy, appearing for the first time at Milan's La Scala in 1896, where she sang the role of Ophélie in Ambroise Thomas's ''Hamlet''. Huguet proved popular in Russia as well. Although Huguet often sang coloratura parts, such as Rosina in Rossini's ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'', she also undertook the verismo roles of Mimì in Puccini's ''La Bohème'' and Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'', and her recordings even include excerpts from Wagner's ''Lohengrin'' (on which she is accompanied by the famous teno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini
Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini (Turin, 1878 – Desio, 1944) was an Italian soprano. Finzi-Magrini made her debut in 1896 as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera. She was remembered for her style and moderation. In retirement she turned to teaching. Her students included the Danish baritone Frantz Rabinowitz (1918–1948). In 1943, when Italy came under Nazi occupation and Jews were being hunted, Finzi-Magrini who was of Jewish origin went into hiding under a false name. In 1944 a young nephew was deported to a concentration camp, causing a heart attack that left her mute and paralyzed. She died six weeks later from wounds received in an American air-raid on Desio. Recordings * Rigoletto: ''Deh non parlare'' (with Titta Ruffo).American celebrity recordings, 1900–1925 Julian Morton Moses – 1993 p208 (8059) Note: Among a host of other selections, this fine soprano sang the usual coloratura aria from the above opera both for Fonotipia before 1909 on No. 92276 and for Columbia after that date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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