Carlotta Ferrari was an Italian composer noted for opera.

Life

Carlotta Ferrari was born in Lodi

Lodi

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, Italy

Italy

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, and studied singing and piano a the Milan

Milan

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 Conservatory with Giuseppina Strepponi

Giuseppina Strepponi

Clelia Maria Josepha Strepponi was a nineteenth century Italian operatic soprano of great renown and the second wife of composer Giuseppe Verdi...

. Ferrari wrote her first opera Ugo at the age of twenty. Faced with a lack of interest, she raised funds for its first public production in Lecco

Lecco

Lecco is a town of c. 47,760 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan, the capital of the province of Lecco. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como...

 and conducted the performances herself. Besides songs and opera, she published an autobiography and poetry and prose works in four volumes titled Versi e prose in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

from 1878-82. She died in Bologna.

Works

Ferrari was a successful composer within her lifetime. She composed opera and cantata and was considered a master of canon. Selected works include:

• Requiem Mass
• Ugo, opera
• Sofia, opera
• Eleonora d'Arborea, opera
• Non t'accostare all'urna, text by Jacopo Vittorelli