Nancy Storace
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Anna Selina Storace, known professionally as Nancy Storace, was an English operatic soprano. The role of Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro was written for and first performed by her.
Portrait of Nancy Storace, circa 1788 by Pietro Bettelini. Retouched version; click for original.
Nancy Storace, c. 1790, by Benjamin van der Gucht (1753–1794)
The Marriage of Figaro
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The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, is a commedia per musica in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater
Nancy Storace
…Italian: ;27 October 1765 – 24 August 1817), known professionally as Nancy Storace, was an English operatic soprano. The role of Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) was written for and first performed by her. Born in London, she began her singing career as a child prodigy in England by the…
Early 19th-century engraving depicting Count Almaviva and Susanna in act 3
Act 1: Cherubino hides behind Susanna's chair as the count arrives.
Printed libretto for the Prague production of 1786
Engraving of Lorenzo da Ponte by Michele Pekenino, after a portrait by the American painter Nathaniel Rogers (1788–1844)