Maria Marchetti Fantozzi was an Italian soprano active in the late 18th century. She was one of the leading singers of opera seria during the 1780s and 1790s, praised for her acting and singing abilities. She specialized in portraying passionate, tragic heroines and created the role of Vitellia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. Music written for her showed her to be an extraordinary virtuoso with a large vocal range and skill in difficult coloratura.
Maria Marchetti Fantozzi was an Italian soprano active in the late 18th century. She was one of the leading singers of opera seria during the 1780s and 1790s, praised for her acting and singing abilities. She specialized in portraying passionate, tragic heroines and created the role of Vitellia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. Music written for her showed her to be an extraordinary virtuoso with a large vocal range and skill in difficult coloratura.
Maria Marchetti Fantozzi was an Italian soprano active in the late 18th century. She was one of the leading singers of opera seria during the 1780s and 1790s, praised for her acting and singing abilities. She specialized in portraying passionate, tragic heroines and created the role of Vitellia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. Music written for her showed her to be an extraordinary virtuoso with a large vocal range and skill in difficult coloratura.
Maria (?Vincenza) (b ?1760; d ? after 1800). Italian soprano. She was one of the leading singers of opera seria during the 1780s and 90s. Around 1783 she married the tenor Angelo Fantozzi and thereafter usually identified herself as Maria Marchetti Fantozzi. She was praised throughout Italy for her acting as well as her singing, particularly in Naples, where she performed in at least nine different operas in 1785–6. Marchetti was a specialist in the portrayal of passionate, tragic heroines like Semiramide and Cleopatra; she was thus ideally suited to create the role of Vitellia in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. Music written for her by Cherubini, Tritto and Zingarelli, as well as Mozart, shows her to have been an extraordinary virtuoso, with a large range and a capacity for difficult coloratura. BIBLIOGRAPHY SartoriL J.A. Rice: ‘Mozart and his Singers: the Case of Maria Marchetti Fantozzi, the First Vitellia’, OQ, xi/4 (1994–5), 31–52 JOHN A. RICE