Editing Marietta Alboni (section)

==Repertoire==
[[File:Marietta Alboni by Charles Vogt.jpg|thumb|By Charles Vogt, 1855]]
The following list of the roles performed by Marietta Alboni was drawn up by [[Arthur Pougin]] and published in his biography of the singer.<ref>Pougin, 2001, pp. 115–116.</ref> It is reported here with the addition of further works and characters according to the sources stated in footnotes. 
* ''[[Anna Bolena]]'', by [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]] – Anna and Smeton<ref>The role of the young musician is not mentioned by Pougin, but was certainly performed at the Royal Italian Opera (Covent Garden) in 1847 and 1848 (''Royal Italian Opera'', «The Musical World», n. 26, volume XXII, 26 June 1847, p. 445, and n. 25, volume XXIII, 17 June 1848, p. 389; accessible for free online at Books.Google: [https://books.google.com/books?id=FJMPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA537 Volume XXII] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=_PksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA384 Volume XXIII]). The latter article seems also to disprove [[Elizabeth Forbes (musicologist)|Elizabeth Forbes]]'s statement that Alboni performed in the 1748 season of the Royal Italian Opera the role of Romeo in [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]]'s ''[[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]'', which was sung, instead, by [[Pauline Viardot]] (Elizabeth Forbes, ''Alboni, Marietta'', in Laura Macy (ed), ''The Grove Book of Opera Singers'', New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 6–7, {{ISBN|978-0-19-533765-5}}).</ref>
* ''[[Le siège de Corinthe|L'assedio di Corinto]]'', by [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]] – Neocle<ref>Pougin does not mention the character, but it is that of Neocle, transposed for contralto in the Italian version of the opera. It was Alboni's debut role at the [[Teatro alla Scala]] ([http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/R/c22034822.htm ''italianOpera'']. Retrieved 17. October 2011).</ref>
* ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'', by [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]] – Ulrica
* ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]'', by Rossini – Rosina
* ''[[La Cenerentola]]'', by Rossini – Cenerentola
* [[Charles VI (opera)|''Charles VI'']], by [[Fromental Halévy|Halévy]] – Odette
* ''Consuelo'', by [[Giovanni Battista Gordigiani]] – Anzoletto<ref>The première of this opera was performed at [[Prague]] in 1846 (William Ashbrook, ''Gordigiani. (2) Gordigiani, Giovanni Battista'', in Stanley Sadie, II, p. 489) It should hence be a role created by Alboni.</ref>
* ''[[Così fan tutte]]'', by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] – Dorabella
* [[Il crociato in Egitto|''Il crociato'']], by [[Giacomo Meyerbeer|Meyerbeer]] – Felicia<ref>The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in Jacques Gheusi, ''Histoire du Théâtre des Italiens de Paris. Neuvième et Dixième époques: 1852–1878'', «Avant-scène opéra Paris», N° 65 (supplement), 1984 ([[Adelaide Borghi-Mamo]] performed the castrato role of Armando and [[Rosina Penco]] that of Palmide).</ref>
* ''Un curioso accidente'', ''[[pastiche]]'' with music by Rossini
* ''David'', [[oratorio]], by Muhlig
* ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', by Mozart – Zerlina
* ''[[Don Pasquale]]'', by Donizetti – Norina
* ''[[La donna del lago]]'', by Rossini – Malcolm and Elena
* ''L'ebrea'', by [[Giovanni Pacini|Pacini]] – Berenice<ref>The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in the original libretto (cf. [http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/P/c21986118.htm ''italianOpera'']. Retrieved 17 October 2011); it is a role created by Alboni (Milan, 1844). According to Casaglia, Alboni performed, instead, a would-be role of Eudossia, which is not even stated by the original libretto among the other characters of this opera.</ref>
* ''[[Ernani]]'', by Verdi – Don Carlo, Giovanna<ref>Beyond her well-known 1848 London performance in the baritone role of Don Carlo, according to the sources reported by the website [http://musicabresciana.it/Oratori%201800-1849.html musicabresciana.it] Alboni had already sung in Verdi's ''Ernani'', at the Teatro Grande in [[Brescia]], in 1844. She evidently performed the minor role of Giovanna as the main role of Elvira was taken by soprano Augusta Boccabadati (1821?–1875) (Marcello Conati, ''Observations on the early reviews of Verdi's "Ernani"'', in Pierluigi Petrobelli (ed), ''Ernani yesterday and today : proceedings of the international conference : Modena, Teatro San Carlo, 9–10 december 1984'', Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 1989, p. 268, {{ISBN|88-85065-06-6}}). Boccabadati was the daughter of the more famous [[Luigia Boccabadati|Luigia]] and the elder sister of {{Interlanguage link multi|Virginia Boccabadati|it|3=Virginia Boccabadati|lt=Virginia|vertical-align=sup}}, who was suggested by Verdi in 1853 as a suitable first performer of Violetta in ''[[La traviata]]'' (cf. article: ''Boccabadati, Luigia (Luisa)'', in ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'' – Volume 10, 1968, accessible online at [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luigia-boccabadati_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Treccani.it]).</ref>
* ''[[La favorite]]'', by Donizetti – Léonor
* ''[[La fille du régiment]]'', by Donizetti – Marie
* ''[[La gazza ladra]]'', by Rossini – Pippo and Ninetta
* ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Giovanna D'Arco (Rossini)|it|3=Giovanna D'Arco (Rossini)|lt=Giovanna D'Arco|vertical-align=sup}}'',<ref>Performance not mentioned by Pougin, but stated by Gherardo Casaglia.</ref> [[cantata]], by Rossini
* [[Giulietta e Romeo (Vaccai)|''Giulietta e Romeo'']], by [[Nicola Vaccaj|Vaccai]] – Romeo
* ''[[Il giuramento]]'', by [[Saverio Mercadante|Mercadante]] – Bianca<ref name="Amadeus">The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported by Gherardo Casaglia.</ref>
* ''Ildegonda'', by [[Marco Aurelio Marliani]] – Rizzardo<ref>The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in the original libretto (cf. [http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/M/c219427.htm#C142406 ''italianOpera'']. Retrieved 15 October 2011); it is a role created by Alboni (Milan, 1843).</ref>
* ''[[L'italiana in Algeri]]'', by Rossini – Isabella
* ''Lara'', by [[Matteo Salvi|Salvi]] – Mirza<ref>The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in Charles H. Parsons (ed), ''Opera premieres: an index of casts. M–Z'', Lewiston (NY), Mellen (opera reference index), 1992, p. 1141, {{ISBN|0-88946-413-8}}. This role was created by Alboni (Milan, 1843).</ref>
* ''[[Linda di Chamounix]]'', by Donizetti – Pierotto
* [[Lucrezia Borgia (opera)|''Lucrezia Borgia'']], by Donizetti – Maffio Orsini
* ''[[Luisa Miller]]'', by Verdi – Federica<ref>The character name, not mentioned by Pougin, is reported in Frederick J. Crowest, ''Verdi: Man and Musician. His Biography with Especial Reference to his English Experiences'', Londra, Milne, 1897, p. 99 (accessible for free online at [https://archive.org/stream/verdimanmusician00crow#page/98/mode/2up ''Open Library.org'']). Given the minor nature of the part, however, Alboni "[substituted] a ''cavatina'' for the original duet of the opera" (the part was sung at [[Her Majesty's Theatre]], London, 1858).</ref>
* ''[[Maria di Rohan]]'', by Donizetti – Gondi
* ''[[Martha (opera)|Martha]]'', by [[Friedrich von Flotow|Flotow]] – Nancy
* ''[[Il matrimonio segreto]]'', by [[Domenico Cimarosa|Cimarosa]] – Fidalma
* ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]'', oratorio by [[Georg Friedrich Händel|Händel]]
* ''La pazza per amore'', by [[Pietro Antonio Coppola|Coppola]] – Nina<ref name="Amadeus"/>
* [[Norma (opera)|''Norma'']], by [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]] – Norma
* ''[[Le nozze di Figaro]]'', by Mozart – The page (Cherubino)
* [[Oberon (Weber)|''Oberon'']], by [[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber]] – Fatima
* [[Petite messe solennelle]],<ref name="non">Not mentioned by Pougin (non-operatic performance).</ref> [[Mass (music)|mass]] by Rossini
* ''[[Le prophète]]'', by Meyerbeer – Fidès
* ''La reine de Chypre'', by Halévy – Catarina
* ''[[Rigoletto]]'', by Verdi – Maddalena
* ''Saffo'', by Pacini – Climene
* [[Semiramide]], by Rossini – Arsace
* ''La sibilla'', by [[Pietro Torrigiani (composer)|Pietro Torrigiani]] – Ismailia<ref>Not mentioned by Pougin. Source: [https://books.google.com/books?id=GytEAAAAcAAJ premiere libretto] (Bologna, 1842).</ref>
* ''[[La sonnambula]]'', by Bellini – Amina
* [[Stabat Mater (Rossini)|''Stabat mater'']],<ref name="non"/> [[Hymns to Mary|Marian hymn]], by Rossini
* ''[[Tancredi]]'', by Rossini – Tancredi
* ''[[Il trovatore]]'', by Verdi – Azucena
* ''Zerline'', by [[Daniel Auber|Auber]] – Zerline<ref>It was a première (Paris, 1851).</ref>
* [[The Bohemian Girl|''La zingara'']], by [[Michael William Balfe|Balfe]] – Queen of the Gypsies<ref>The character name is not mentioned by Pougin; in his biography of Balfe, however, William Alexander Barret states that the two primadonnas of ''La Zingara'' (an Italian version of ''The bohemian girl'', which was given in the first experimental winter season at [[Her Majesty's Theatre]], in 1858) were Alboni and [[Marietta Piccolomini]] (''Balfe: His Life and Work'', London, Remington, 1882, p. 229; accessible for free online at [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924021747781#page/n245/mode/2up ''Open Library.org'']). Considering that the latter certainly performed the [[soprano leggiero]] part of Arline (cf., for instance, [http://www.musicwithease.com/balfe-bohemian-girl-annals.html ''Music with ease'']. Retrieved 15 October 2011), it follows that Alboni expectedly interpreted the contralto role of the Gypsy Queen.</ref>
* ''[[Les Huguenots]]'', by Meyerbeer – The page (Urbain)