Luigia Abbadia
Luigia Abbadia (* 1821 in Genoa, † January 1896 in Rome) was an Italian opera singer.
Life
Luigia Abbadia was the daughter of Italian composer and singing teacher Natale Abbadia (* 1792, † 1861), who cared mainly for their musical education. More training she received at the violinist Bianchi. She had a beautiful, impasto mezzo soprano voice with such a large scale that they could sing normally intended for sopranos games.
Her singing debut Abbadia already as a young girl in 1836 in Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini and I in Norman a Parigi by Saverio Mercadante in the theater of Sassari in Sardinia. Two years later she appeared at Mantua as Agnese de Maino in Beatrice di Tenda by Vincenzo Bellini. In the summer of 1839 she sang at the theater in Brescia, in the fall of 1839 at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna and in the coming years at the opera houses of several Italian cities.
On February 11, 1840 Abbadia played at the Teatro Regio in Turin Rowena in the world premiere of Il Templario by Otto Nicolai and entered in the fall of 1840 in the same opera for the first time at La Scala on. There, they enjoyed great popularity in the following years the audience and sang about on 5 September 1840, the Giulietta di Kelbar at the ending in a fiasco Un giorno di regno premiere of Giuseppe Verdi. In addition, she stood on the stage of La Scala in Milan on October 3, 1840 Marie is an neubearbeiteten version of La fille du régiment by Gaetano Donizetti, on 16 November 1841, the Delizia at the world premiere of Corrado d' Altamura by Federico Ricci and 26 December. , 1841 during the premiere of Donizetti's Maria Padilla, in which she sang the specially written by the composer for her voice role of Inez Padilla. Other roles Abbadias at La Scala in Verdi's Ernani included the Elvira, Emilia La vestal by Saverio Mercadante, Leonore in Torquato Tasso by Donizetti as well as the title characters of the opera by Giovanni Pacini Saffo and Alina, regina di Golconda by Donizetti.
As Abbadia in autumn 1840 in Milan as Cuniza in the opera, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio occurred, the composer Giuseppe Verdi wrote an own cavatina for the singer. In 1840 she was also a member of the ensemble of Italian opera at Kärntnertortheater in Vienna and sang the role of Corilla Scortichini in the two-act opera Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali by Donizetti. She also made guest appearances in 1841 and 1843 on Kärntnertortheater. As a further highlights of her career as an opera singer are to call their representations of Alisa in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola.
At the Scala Abbadia again in 1846 gave a performance in the role of Rosmunda in Alboino by Francesco Sang Alli. Not particularly successful in 1848, her appearance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. 1853 she sang the role of Elvira in Verdi's Ernani at the Teatro Ravviati in Pisa. As Achille Lorini guested with his opera company in Germany 1860-1861, Abbadia belonged to their members and graduated from there performances in several cities, as in Berlin and Hamburg.
After Abbadia 1870 had ended her musical career on stage, she founded a singing school in Milan. She managed to train some of their students into successful opera singers, the sisters Sofia and Giulia Ravogli, the contralto, Giuseppina Pasqua and the tenor Giovanni Battista de Negri.