Giuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Pasta was an Italian opera singer.
10 Facts About Giuditta Pasta
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Giuditta Pasta has been compared to the 20th-century soprano Maria Callas.
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Giuditta Pasta was born of the Negri family, who came from Lomazzo, where the family practiced medical art.
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Giuditta Pasta studied in Milan with Giuseppe Scappa and Davide Banderali, and later with Girolamo Crescentini and Ferdinando Paer among others.
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In 1816, she married fellow singer Giuseppe Pasta and took his surname as her own.
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Giuditta Pasta made her professional opera debut in the world premiere of Scappa's Le tre Eleonore in Milan that same year.
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Giuditta Pasta's first appearance in London in 1817 was a failure.
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Giuditta Pasta sang regularly in London, Paris, Milan and Naples between 1824 and 1837.
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Giuditta Pasta died in Blevio, a town in the province of Como on 1 April 1865, at the age of 67.
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Giuditta Pasta's voice was described by a New Monthly Magazine reviewer in 1824 as follows:.