Marietta Allievi

A singer of secondary parts for nearly thirty years from 1850, who created the high priestess in Aida at Cairo on 24 December 1871. Her career centred on the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, where she appeared in more than twenty productions between 1855 and 1870, and on the Teatro Grande in Trieste. Her parts included Annina in La traviata, Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Maddalena in Linda di Chamounix, and she sang in a dozen other premieres, three of them by Cagnoni, from La valle d'Andorra at Milan in 1851 to Claudia in 1866.