Adelaide Ristori

Adelaide Ristori (* January 26, 1818 or January 29, 1822 in Cividale del Friuli, Friuli, † October 8, 1906 in Turin) was an Italian actress.

Life

Ristori was the daughter of actor couple and has already appeared as a child with her ​​parents. It achieved its first major success in 1835 in the lead role of Francesca da Rimini ( Silvio Pellico ). To 1840, Ristori graduated in Parma at the ducal Ensemble, where he had as Mary Stuart ( Friedrich Schiller) their artistic breakthrough.

1847 married Ristori the Marchese Giuliano Capranica del Grillo. With him she had one son: Marquis Giorgio Capranica del Grillo. By 1850, she paused and devoted himself in these years only her family. From the autumn of 1850 Ristori went back on tour and made so competition her colleague Rachel Felix.

In Paris Ristori had in the role of Myrrha ( Vittorio Alfieri ) extraordinary success and this success she was able to continue in the theaters of Berlin, London, Dresden and Vienna. 1857 she performed with equal success in Spain, 1860 in Holland, in 1861 in Russia. One of her greatest successes it achieved in the title role of Medea ( Ernest Legouvé ). This work was just as Legouvés Beatrix of Giuseppe Montanelli not only translated, but it almost made ​​for her.

1864, she triumphed at Constantinople Opel, 1867 in the United States, which she visited Central and South America early 70s Australia and England, 1879 and 1880 Germany and Sweden.

Their shapes were characterized by deep interiority and thrilling glow of passion.

Works

• Ricordi e studi artistici, Roux, Turin 1887