Giulia Grisi | |
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 Grisi as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni | |
| Born | 22 May 1811 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 29 November 1869 (aged 58) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Opera singer (soprano) |
| Spouse | Giovanni Matteo Mario |
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Giulia Grisi[1] (22 May 1811 – 29 November 1869)[2] was an Italian opera singer. She performed widely in Europe, the United States and South America and was among the leading sopranos of the 19th century.[3]
Her second husband was Giovanni Matteo Mario de Candia (also known as "Mario the Tenor"), scion of a noble family of the Kingdom of Sardinia. She is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Her grave is marked "Juliette de Candia", styled in her married last name; usually better known by the courtesy title the Marquesse of Candia.
- ^ National Portrait Gallery | Giulia Grisi | https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp52371
- ^ "Grisi, Giulia" by Elizabeth Forbes, Grove Music Online; 28 July is occasionally reported as her birthday; that date is the birthday of her sister Giuditta.
- ^ Encyclopaedia and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera contain some errors about the tenor "Mario". See also: Beale 1890; De Candia and Hird 1910; Engel 1886, pp. 332 and 336–337; and Floris and Serra 1986.