Isabella Fabbrica

Isabella Fabbrica (Milan, c. 1802 – Turin, c. 1860) was an Italian operatic contralto.

After a few years spent mainly between Milan and Turin, she married, after dropping a possible union with Mercadante,[1] the tenor Giovanni Battista Montresor, son of the contralto Adelaide Malanotte.

After her debut in Rome in 1830, she spent some years in Portugal, where she obtained an extraordinary success.

[2] Later Fabbrica sang also in Madrid and Saint Petersburg, until 1850, when she ceased her activity.

Isabella Fabbrica was very famous for her talents as an actress and for her powerful voice.