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Teresa Brambilla

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Birthplace: Cassano d'Adda, Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Death: July 15, 1895 (81)
Milano, Italy
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Daughter of Gerolamo Brambilla and Angela Columbo
Sister of N N 1 Brambilla; Marietta Brambilla; Annetta Brambilla; N N 2 Brambilla; Giuseppina Brambilla and 1 other

Occupation: Italian operatic soprano
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About Teresa Brambilla

Teresa Brambilla was a celebrated Italian soprano most remembered today for having created the role of Gilda in Verdi's opera, Rigoletto. During a career that spanned 20 years, she sang throughout Italy and in other European cities, including Paris, Barcelona and Odessa.

Teresa Brambilla was born in Cassano d'Adda to a musical family. Teresa was one of five sisters who all became opera singers. Her elder sister, Marietta (1807–1875) was a contralto who specialised in travesti roles and sang in the premieres of several of Donizetti's operas. Her younger sister, Giuseppina (1819–1903) was also a contralto who appeared in major opera houses in Italy, Spain, and England. Her other two sisters, Annetta and Lauretta, were sopranos who had lesser careers, appearing primarily in Italian opera houses. Like her sisters, Teresa Brambilla studied at the Milan Conservatory, where she first became acquainted with Giuseppina Strepponi, a fellow student and the future wife of Giuseppe Verdi.

After her professional debut in 1831, Brambilla initially sang in several smaller opera houses in northern Italy but in 1833 scored a considerable success at Milan's Teatro Carcano singing Agnese in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda and the leading soprano role in Fioravanti's Le cantatrici villane. She then appeared on Russia at the Odessa Opera House, which at the time specialised in Italian opera. Upon her return to Milan in 1837, she sang with her sister Marietta at La Scala in the world premiere of In morte di Maria Malibran de Bériot, a cantata in memory of Maria Malibran composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Giovanni Pacini, Saverio Mercadante, Nicola Vaccai and Pietro Antonio Coppola. After singing in Barcelona, she returned to La Scala for the 1839/1840 season in Mercadante's Le due illustri rivali and the world premieres of Mazzucato's I corsari and Coccia's Giovanna II.

BRAMBILLA MARIETTA, TERESA E GIUSEPPINA. Manetta Brambilla fu un contralto di grande rinomanza. Nacque ne' primi anni di questo secolo a Gassano d'Adda. Ebbe voce soave ed oltre modo simpatica. Fu un vero modello di precisione e di buon gusto, e quindi tanto in Italia come all'estero ottenne applausi entusiastici. Sono già molti anni che si è ritirata dalle scene in Milano, ove aperse pri- vata scuola, e fa allievi al bel canto. È autrice di Esercizii e Voca- 96 BRIG lizzi per soprano in chiave di sol, adottati dal Conservatorio di Parigi: autrice di Melodie, di Romanze, di Ballate, d'Ariette, ecc. Sua sorella Teresa si è pure meritata una bella rinomanza. Esordi ai Teatro Italiano di Parigi nel Nabucco, e corse onorevole e bril- lante carriera. AFirenze, a Napoli, a Torino, a Venezia, a Parigi, ecc. ecc. , ebbe onori ed ovazioni. Da qualche anno si è fermata in Odessa, e pare abbia lasciate le scene. Brambilla Giuseppina è la terza Musa di codesta famiglia. Anche essa onorò il puro stile e la vera scuola, e colse applausi ne' pri- rnarii Teatri. Qualch'anno fa, si fece sposa al tenore Corrado Mira- glia, siciliano, artista di qualche merito, e Autore di un Album Musicale, pel quale la Corte di Portogallo lo creò Cavaliere.

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Teresa Brambilla's Timeline

1813
October 23, 1813
Cassano d'Adda, Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy
1895
July 15, 1895
Age 81
Milano, Italy