Anna Morichelli Bosello

After singing at Venice and Milan, she appeared at Vienna in 1781–2, and with difficulty obtained leave from the Emperor to return and fulfil an engagement at Turin.

[2] She continued to sing at the chief theatres of Italy, until Giovanni Battista Viotti engaged her for the Théâtre de Monsieur, in Paris, in 1790, where she remained during the years 1791–2.

[2] Lorenzo da Ponte, the poet of the London Opera-House, gives a severe description of these two singers in his Memoirs: he calls them 'equals in vice, passions, and dishonesty', though differing in the methods by which they sought to accomplish their designs: The Morichelli woman had plenty of talent and a notable cultivation of mind.

She took her measures always at long range, trusted no one, never lost her temper, and though fiercely practising voluptuous indulgences, nevertheless always managed to play the part of a modest and retiring virgin of fifteen.

So she might be, but never could have been half so delightful a singer, and she was now past her prime; her voice was not true, her taste spoiled by a long residence at Paris, … and her manner and acting were affected.