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The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna, 11/2022Book Chapter
This chapter deals with Nancy Storace’s third year as prima donna and her alarming vocal crisis. Fortunately, Celeste Coltellini, who had been engaged as the altra prima donna, rescued the season. Major new singers included Vincenzo Calvesi, accompanied by his wife Teresa, Paolo Mandini, and Rosalinda Marconi Molinelli. The great musico Luigi Marchesi swept like a god across the stage in six special performances of opera seria. The season revolved entirely around Storace’s health. Her daughter was born at the end of January; the christening record is dated 30 January.¹ Storace then had a long break between the end of
