Francesca Quadri

A singer of the Rome theatres from 1851 to 1867, who created Ines in Il trovatore at the Teatro Apollo on 19 January 1853. At the Apollo, the Argentina and the Valle she took the secondary parts, among them the Countess in Viscardello, Annina in Violetta and Curra in Don Alvaro, as Rigoletto, La traviata and La forza del destino were billed in Rome, and she sang in six other premieres, among them Sangiorgi's Iginia d'Asti in 1862 and Petrella's Caterina Howard in 1866.