Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini

Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini (26 December 1723 – 30 June 1760) was an Italian opera singer (contralto) who performed in Germany.

Albuzzi-Todeschini as Tusnelda in Hasse's Arminio (Dresden 1753)

Life

Born in Milan, Albuzzi-Todeschini was hired at the Opernhaus am Zwinger in Dresden on 1 January 1750. Along with Regina Mingotti she was the successor of Faustina Bordoni and was considered a "prima donna at more than one place".[1] Critics praised her for her "full, sonorous and extremely trained voice [and] her masterful and gorgeous performance".[2] Albuzzi-Todeschini was earning 2000 thalers per year in 1750, and 3000 thalers per years three years later in 1753.

Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl fell in love with Albuzzi-Todeschini and he had a gazebo built for her outside the Dresden town walls, called "Brühl's Rotunda" but nicknamed "Albuzzi's Bush".[1][3] Albuzzi-Todeschini remained in Dresden during the Seven Years' War but joined her mother, her husband Antonio Schreivogel-Todeschini, and her two children in Milan in December 1758. She died after a long illness in 1760 at the inn "Zum Einhorn" and was buried on 25 May 1760 in Prague.

References
  1. Friedrich August Freiherr ô Byrn (1880). Hubert Maximilian Ermisch (ed.). "Giovanna Casanova und die Comici italiani am polnisch-sächsischen Hofe". Neues Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte und Altertumskunde (in German). Dresden: Wilhelm Baensch. 1: 301.
  2. Moritz Fürstenau (1862). Zur Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe der Kurfürsten von Sachsen und Könige von Polen Friedrich August I. (August II.) und Friedrich August II. (August III.) (in German). Dresden: Verlagsbuchhandlung von Rudolf Kuntze. p. 272.
  3. Johann Georg Theodor Grässe (1885). Der Sagenschatz des Königreichs Sachsen. Dresden: Schonfeld. pp. 99–100. (Full text in German Wikisource)


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