Maria Anna Marzia Alboni was an Italian contralto opera singer. She is considered "one of the greatest contraltos in operatic history".
Marietta Alboni carte de visite by E. Disdéri
Viardot and Alboni in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Covent Garden 1848
"My vocal range" (free reproduction of an annotation of Marietta Alboni's own vocal range, drawn by herself in a family album)
By Charles Vogt, 1855
Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini
The Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini is a college of music in Bologna, Italy. The conservatory opened on 3 December 1804, as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna. It was initially housed in the convent at the Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore. The first faculty at the school included the composers Stanislao Mattei and Giovanni Callisto Zanotti, and the composer and singer Lorenzo Gibelli. Gioachino Rossini was a pupil at the school beginning in 1806, and was appointed head of the school in 1839. Later directors of the school included Luigi Mancinelli (1881–1886), Giuseppe Martucci (1886–1902), Marco Enrico Bossi (1902–1911), and Cesare Nordio (1925–1945).
Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini