Teresa Ruggeri
also Teresa Ruggeri-Visanetti, Teresa Ruggieri, Teresa Ruggieri Visanetti
Birthplace: Cesena
A singer of La Scala in Milan for more than twenty years, where she took the secondary parts and created Anna in Nabucco in 1842, Viclinda in I Lombardi in 1843 and Giovanna in the La Scala Ernani of 1844. Her career ran from 1816 to 1851, most of it in Milan, and she sang in some forty premieres at La Scala and the Canobbiana, among them Pacini's Gli Arabi nelle Gallie in 1827 and Donizetti's Maria Padilla in 1841.
Creations
- Giovanna — Ernani (Milan, 1844)
- Viclinda — I Lombardi alla prima crociata
- Anna — Nabucco
Written from
- Corago (n.d.) Ruggeri, Teresa. Università di Bologna opera performance database. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
- I Lombardi alla prima crociata (n.d.) Milan: Ricordi, p. 1. Libretto with the cast of 11 February 1843. (Accessed: 20 October 2026).
- L'Italia musicale (1850) p. 135. (Accessed: 20 October 2026).