Marietta Alboni

Marietta Alboni
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Maria Anna Marzia (called Marietta) Alboni (6 March 1826[1] – 23 June 1894) was an Italian contralto opera singer. She is considered "one of the greatest contraltos in operatic history".[2]

  1. ^ Date stated by both Ciliberti and Pougin; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica gives the year as 1823.
  2. ^ Entry in Harold Rosenthal & John Warrack (ed.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 6, ISBN 0-19-311321-X.