Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni
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Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni (born
Piacenza Piacenza (; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Piacenza, eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with more ...
, 16 May 1793 – died Piacenza, 6 August 1872) was an Italian
soprano A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...
who later became a
contralto A contralto () is a classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range is the lowest of their voice type, voice types. The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare, similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to ...
. She was born as Benedetta Pisaroni to Giambattista Pisaroni and Luigia Pratti. Active on the operatic stage from 1811 to 1831, she suffered from smallpox in the early years of her career, which caused a change (downward) in her extended vocal range. Appearing in Bergamo, Padua, Bologna, Venice, Milan, Rome, and eventually Paris in the 1810s and 1820s, she was closely associated with the operas of
Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. He gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote man ...
and
Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart and Richard Wa ...
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Roles created

*Romilda in Meyerbeer's '' Romilda e Costanza'' (1817) *Zomira in Rossini's '' Ricciardo e Zoraide'' (1818) *Andromaca in Rossini's '' Ermione'' (1819) *Malcolm in Rossini's ''
La donna del lago ''La donna del lago'' (English language, English: ''The Lady of the Lake'') is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) based on the French translationO ...
'' (1819) *Almanzor in Meyerbeer's '' L'esule di Granata'' (1821)


Sources

* Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), 'Pisaroni, Benedetta Rosmunda' in ''The
New Grove Dictionary of Opera ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' is an encyclopedia of opera. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes. The dictionary was first published in 1992 by Macmillan Reference, L ...
'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London) 1793 births 1872 deaths Musicians from Piacenza Italian operatic sopranos Italian operatic contraltos 19th-century Italian women opera singers {{italy-opera-singer-stub