Caterina Cavalieri
Caterina Cavalieri ( born March 13, 1755 in Lichtental in Vienna, † June 30, 1801 in Vienna) was an Austrian opera singer and one of the most famous sopranos of her time.
Life
As a very young girl under the name Katharina Magdalena Josepha Cavalier babies has already been used to chant. Art lovers soon fell on her beautiful voice, and she led the training of talented singer with Antonio Salieri, who promoted her life. Already in 1775 she made her debut at the Italian opera La Finta Giardiniera Pasquale Anfossi in Vienna. Immediately after the establishment of the " German National - Singspiel " by Emperor Joseph II, she was engaged for this stage, where she served as one of the highest paid singers celebrated its greatest triumphs, including in Ignaz circulation Singspiel The miners ( 1778) and musical comedy The chimney sweep in Salieri (1781 ). After 1790 she slowly withdrew from the stage, she was retired on March 1, 1793. Little is known about her final years. 1801 died unmarried in Vienna; an alleged affair with Salieri is based on a Da Ponte applied by the poet Lorenzo rumor also having an affair with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be relegated to the realm of fantasy.
Your very thoroughly trained, powerfully clear voice had an extraordinary extent, and an almost legendary Gelaufigkeit, the unpaid numerous composers tribute. The composer Joseph Martin Kraus showed during his stay in Vienna in 1783 less impressed by Cavalieri's voice and called it in his diary as " small, but pleasant-sounding ".
Mozart wrote for her the role of Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio ( 1782 ), the soprano part in Davidde penitente ( 1785), and the role of Mademoiselle silver tone in The Impresario (1786 ), as well as the large insert aria of Donna Elvira for the Vienna performance Don Giovanni (1788 ).
Cavalieri is a silent role in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. The voice of the Cavalieri in Miloš Forman's Academy Award-winning Amadeus film is played by Christine Ebersole and sung by Suzanne Murphy.