Jessica Pratt (soprano)
Jessica Pratt (born 20 June 1979) is an English-born Australian operatic soprano. Born in Bristol, she has lived in Australia since 1991 and is the daughter of a tenor. She began by studying the trumpet for ten years before concentrating her studies on singing. In 2003, she won the Australian Singing Competition,Winner of the 2003 competition
on aussing.org.au which brought her to Europe, and she was subsequently invited by to continue her studies at the . While in Rome, she also studied under < ...
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Rosmonda D'Inghilterra
''Rosmonda d'Inghilterra'' (''Rosamund of England'') is a ''melodramma'' or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language, Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani originally for Carlo Coccia, Coccia's ''Rosmunda'' (1829). It is based on the legend of Rosamund Clifford (''The Fair Rosamund''). Performance history It premiered at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence on 27 February 1834 and was revived only in Livorno in 1845. A request for it to be approved for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples was submitted in June 1837 and it was revised as ''Eleonora di Gujenna'' for that theatre, but there is no evidence that it was actually performed there. It was largely forgotten until its English rediscovery in 1975 by Patric Schmid, co-founder of Opera Rara, who recognised Donizetti's handwriting by chance on the manuscript in the library of the Naples Conservatory. A concert performance was given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London with Yvonne Kenny in the title ro ...
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