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Adriana Ferrarese del Bene (born c. 1755 in Ferrara – died after 1804 in Venice) was an Italian operatic soprano. She was one of the first performers of Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and the first performer of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.

Portrait of Adriana Ferrarese del Bene circa 1785
Portrait of Adriana Ferrarese del Bene circa 1785

She has been known under a variety of names. The 1979 edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera lists her as born Adriana Gabrieli and later known La Ferrarese (presumably from the city of her birth).[1] However, Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians notes that her identification with a Francesca Gabrielli, "detta la Ferrarese" ("called la Ferrarese"), whom Charles Burney heard in Venice in 1770 is not based on solid evidence. What is known is that she married Luigi del Bene in 1782 and performed thereafter as Adriana Ferrarese (or Ferraresi) del Bene.[2][3]

Adriana Ferrarese del Bene studied in Venice and performed in London (1785-1787) before arriving in Vienna, where she made her reputation singing serious roles in opera buffa (1788-1791). The publication Rapport von Wien reported, "She has, in addition to an unbelievable high register, a striking low register and connoisseurs of music claim that in living memory no such voice has sounded within Vienna's walls."[4]


Performance of Mozart


Mozart had an extreme dislike for the soprano Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, for whom the role of Fiordiligi was first created. She had a strange tendency to drop her chin and throw back her head while singing low and high notes respectively, and knowing this, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece aria (“Come scoglio”) with constant harmonic leaps. He took great pleasure in watching her bob her head “like a chicken”.[5]


References


  1. Rosenthal, H. and Warrack, J. (1979) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press. p. 183
  2. Patricia Lewy Gidwitz, and John A. Rice, 'Ferrarese, Adriana', in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell (eds), 2001.
  3. Some contemporary records also give her first name as Andriana or Andreanna.
  4. Divas of Mozart's Day Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Opera Omaha | Did You Know...Così Fan Tutte Edition". www.operaomaha.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.



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Адриана Феррарезе дель Бене (родилась в 1755 году в Ферраре — умерла после 1804 года в Венеции) — итальянская оперная певица, сопрано. Одна из первых исполнительниц партии Сусанны в «Свадьбе Фигаро» Моцарта и первая исполнительница партии Фьордилиджи в его же опере «Так поступают все».



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