Fernanda Capelli

A mezzo-soprano of the Milan theatres from 1869 to 1889. At La Scala, until 1882, she took the secondary parts, Marta in Faust, Flora in La traviata, Curra in La forza del destino and Agnese in Ponchielli's I promessi sposi, created one of Amelia's maids in the revised Simon Boccanegra in 1881, and was Caterina de' Medici in the premiere of Josse's La Lega in 1876. At the city's other theatres she sang in six more premieres, the last Bensa's Cleopatra at the Teatro Dal Verme in 1889.