Maddalena Allegranti

Maddalena Allegranti. Portrait by Francesco Bartolozzi after Richard Cosway.

Maddalena Allegranti (1754– after 1801) was a pupil of Holtzbauer of Mannheim, and appeared for the first time at Venice in 1771. After singing at other theatres in Italy, she went in 1774 to the Holy Roman Empire, where she continued to perform at Mannheim and Ratisbon till the year 1779, when she returned to Venice. She sang there at the theatre of San Samuele during the Carnival, and eventually came to England in 1781. Here she was enthusiastically admired in her first opera, Viaggiatori felici by Pasquale Anfossi.