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Elena D'Angri Vitturi (also known as Elena Angri) (May 1821 or 1824 in Corfu – 29 August 1886[1] in Barcelona) was a Greek-born operatic contralto of Italian origin who was active in the mid-19th century in European opera houses and in the United States.[2][3]

The daughter of Saverio Angri (originally from Naples) and Maria Vitturi di Giovanni, her real name was Nazarena Mattia Elena Catterina.^{[citation needed]} She was baptised on 10 June 1821 at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St James and St Christopher in Corfu, Greece.^{[citation needed]} She studied singing with Salvatore Taglioni and Giuseppe Doglia.[4] She made her opera debut in Lucca in 1843 and was engaged by La Scala in 1844.[4] She divided her time between the Vienna State Opera and La Scala from 1845 through 1847, and in 1846 was named a Kammersänger by Ferdinand I of Austria.[4] Her debut in London was in 1849.[5]

During the 1855 and 1856 season at the Teatro Regio in Turin, she performed in La Cenerentola (as Angelina), The Barber of Seville (as Rosina), and Il trovatore (as Azucena).[6] Later in 1856, she performed for the first time in New York City, accompanied by the pianist and composer Sigismond Thalberg.[7]

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Sources

• French, Benjamin Brown; et al. (1989). Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee's Journal, 1828–1870. University Press of New England. ISBN 9780874514674.
• Kardamis, Konstantinos (22–24 October 2004). "Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù: An overview of its significance for the Greek ottocento" (PDF). Lecce: XI Convegno Annuale di Società Italiana di Musicologia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
• Kardamis, Kosta (2014). "Angri, Elena". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O008451.
• Moore, John Weeks (1880) [1854]. "Angri, Elena" . Complete Encyclopaedia of Music. New York: C. H. Ditson & Company.

Further reading

• Lawrence, Vera Brodsky and Strong, George Templeton (1999). Repercussions, 1857–1862, Volume 3 of Strong on Music. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226470156
• Zavadini, Guido (1948). Donizetti: vita, musiche, epistolario, pp. 807–8, 809–10

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