Adelaide Orsola Appignani

Adelaide Orsola Appignani (also known as Orsola Aspri; 1807 – 30 September 1884) was an Italian singer, conductor, music educator and composer. She was a singer and conductor in Florence and Rome in 1839. She was a member of the Roman Academie Filarmonica at Pallazio Lancelotti and was granted an honorary membership in 1842 of the Academie de St. Cecelia. Appignani also taught singing, and one her students was notable tenor Settimio Malvezzi. Life Adelaide Orsola Appignani (also known as Orsola Aspri) was born in Rome around 1807. After her widowed mother married the well-known violinist Andrea Aspri, Appignani changed her name to Orsola Aspri. After completing her studies, she was active as a singer and a conductor in Florence and Rome in 1839. She was a member of the Roman Academie Filarmonica at Pallazio Lancelotti, and performed Smeton in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena there in 1833. Some of her romances and duets were printed in Rome by Ambrosini. Works Her selected works include: *Le advventure de una giornata (melodrama) 1827 *I riti indiani (opera) 1834 *I pirati (melodrama) 1843 *Clara de Clevers (melodrama) 1876 *Sinfonia for instruments (symphony), 1834 *Le redenzioni de Roma (