Marietta Gazzaniga

[1] Her debut season was in 1840 in Voghera where she sang Jane Seymour in Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi.

At the time, Verdi, who was quite irritated, claimed that he had also disliked her performances in the premieres of Luisa Miller and Stiffelio.

That same year she also performed in Bologna, singing the title role in Bellini's Norma and Paolina in Donizetti's Poliuto.

[3] On a subsequent tour to New York (1866–1867) a critic praised her voice as having "greater purity and less vehement forcing of tone".

From an inscription on a brass plaque attached to the portrait of Marietta Gazzaniga that hangs in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA.