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Marchetti Fantozzi [née Marchetti],

Maria (?Vincenza)
(b ?1760; d ? after 1800). Italian soprano. She was one of the leading singers
of opera seria during the 1780s and 90s. Around 1783 she married the tenor
Angelo Fantozzi and thereafter usually identified herself as Maria Marchetti
Fantozzi. She was praised throughout Italy for her acting as well as her
singing, particularly in Naples, where she performed in at least nine different
operas in 1785–6. Marchetti was a specialist in the portrayal of passionate,
tragic heroines like Semiramide and Cleopatra; she was thus ideally suited to
create the role of Vitellia in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. Music written for her
by Cherubini, Tritto and Zingarelli, as well as Mozart, shows her to have been
an extraordinary virtuoso, with a large range and a capacity for difficult
coloratura.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SartoriL
J.A. Rice: ‘Mozart and his Singers: the Case of Maria Marchetti Fantozzi, the
First Vitellia’, OQ, xi/4 (1994–5), 31–52
JOHN A. RICE

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