The New Student's Reference Work/Alboni, Marietta

Alboni, Marietta, a celebrated (contralto) opera singer, born in the Romagna, Italy, in 1823, and died at Paris, June 23, 1894. She studied under Rossini and made her début at Bologna, achieving a phenomenal success. She afterward sang in all the chief Continental and English cities, and also appeared in the United States. She married Count Pepoli, a Bolognese, after whose death, in 1863, she retired from the stage.