Maria Mandini

Maria Mandini (fl 1782–91) was a French opera singer. She is known as the first to perform the role of Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro at its premiere in Vienna on 1 May 1786.[1][2][3][4]

She was the daughter of a member of the court staff at the French court in Versailles. In 1783 she made her debut in Vienna with her husband, Stefano Mandini, in L’italiana in Londra.[5][6][7][8] She appeared in Arbore di Diana, as Britomarte.[9]

References
  1. Raeburn, Christopher; Link, Dorothea LinkDorothea (2009-01-01), "Mandini, Maria", The Grove Book of Opera Singers, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195337655.001.0001/acref-9780195337655-e-934, ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5, retrieved 2023-06-23
  2. Campana, Alessandra (1991). "Mozart's Italian buffo Singers". Early Music. 19 (4): 580–583. ISSN 0306-1078.
  3. "Les Noces de Figaro de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2) : les personnages". pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  4. Rushton, Julian (2007). The new Grove guide to Mozart and his operas. New Grove operas. New York, NY: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531318-5.
  5. "Mandini, Stefano | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  6. "Quell'usignolo". www.quellusignolo.fr. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  7. Link, Dorothea (2018), Keefe, Simon P. (ed.), "The Opera Singers in Vienna", Mozart in Context, Composers in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 198–204, ISBN 978-1-107-18105-2, retrieved 2023-06-23
  8. "MANDINI". www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/mandini.
  9. "L'arbore di Diana". Mundoclasico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-23.


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