Private Lives of Public Women: Prima Donnas in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Venice

Glixon, Beth L.

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“…Lind was not the first altruistic prima donna. Beth L. Glixon (1995) describes how in the mid-seventeenth century the celebrated soprano Anna 'Renzi's financial status was such that she was willing to lend relatively large sums of money, without interest, to friends and acquaintances. In this regard she is so far unique among our prima donnas.'…”

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‘I am doing divinely’

Albinsson

2023

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Jenny Lind (1820-1887) was a giant celebrity soprano in Europe and North America. Her tale has been written by biographers many times over. A picture emerges of an extremely competent singer who managed her position in the spotlight successfully but who still, generally, disliked the attention – the ‘Lindomania’ – that followed her everywhere. Her goal was to make as much money as possible in a short time in order to retire. However, she believed that she owed God, who gave her the gift of being able to sing, to use her talent to help fellow humans in need. She continued singing in concerts and oratorios often for the sole purpose of charity. Information on her earnings and abundant donations to charities appears scattered over many thousands of biography pages. The purpose of this study is to filter out this kind of secondary information and add what has been found as primary information in a few archives in order to create a condensed rendering of incomes and donations. Jenny Lind was thought of as a very wealthy woman. Can this be substantiated by the actual numbers? She was also held as a great benefactor. How did she use her fortune?

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‘I am doing divinely’

Albinsson

2023

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“…On 17 June 1645, Renzi's supporter, nobleman Alvise Michiel, created a wedding contract registered with a notary for Renzi and Roberto Sabbatini. 98 The document contains several remarkable elements. It stipulates that Roberto will "promise now for the time being to marry her" and that Renzi would give everything she owned in Venice and Rome to Roberto, including the earnings gained from her Venetian performances, but all would be invested into a "dowry fund" (515-16).…”

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Performing Celebrity and Anna Renzi's Cross-Dressed Performance as Ergindo

Wier

2023

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Scenes from the life of Silvia Gailarti Manni, a seventeenth-centuryvirtuosa

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1996

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During the seventeenth century, the growth of opera created the need for a large number of artists to perform in theatres throughout Italy and, increasingly, in much of Europe. The biographies of nearly all the singers who performed in Venice, the centre of opera during the middle of the century, and in other cities of Italy remain unwritten and, in most cases, unwritable. For some singers, including Giovanni Antonio Cavagna, Nicola Coresi and Vincenza Giulia Masotti, letters survive that convey something of their personalities. Yet, for the most part, we know nothing of their families and the early years of their careers, nor of their lives as performers. This article will explore several episodes in the career of the Roman singer Silvia Gailarti Manni, whose operatic appearances during three decades have been known to scholars through librettos, but whose life has never before come into focus.

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Private Lives of Public Women: Prima Donnas in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Venice

Cited by 5 publications

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‘I am doing divinely’

‘I am doing divinely’

Performing Celebrity and Anna Renzi's Cross-Dressed Performance as Ergindo

Scenes from the life of Silvia Gailarti Manni, a seventeenth-centuryvirtuosa

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