Teresa Bertinotti

At the age of four she had her first music leassons and made her first stage appearance as a child singer at the Teatro San Carlo when she was 12.

She had a great success in The Magic Flute and Così fan tutte at London's King's Theatre, where she appeared between 1811 and 1812.

Radicati composed several works for his wife's voice, including his opera Fedra, which Bertinotti sang in her first season at the King's Theatre.

[1] The couple settled in Bologna in 1815 when Radicati became leader of the municipal orchestra there and maestro di cappella at the San Petronio Basilica.

Amongst her pupils were Carolina Cuzzani, who became a prima donna at La Scala,[3] and Balbina Steffenone, who sang Leonora in the American premiere of Il trovatore.