soprano (1818-1892). Autograph letter signed. No place [Paris]. 20.06.1842. 8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium.
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To Charles de Beauregard, editor of "La Gazette de France", concerning the opera "Le code noir" by Eugène Scribe and Louis Clapisson, in which she played the role of "Zamba". Her performance caused mixed reactions: "Je vous remercie de l'intérêt que vous prenez a mon égard au sujet de ma création du Code noir [...]. Aussi le public, et les journalistes ont été par fois, on trop indulgent ou parfois sévère [...] Quelques journaux ont trouvé que ma manière d'exprimer la pensée de Mr. Scribe, était rendue par moi avec un chevrotemnet de voix blamâble par eux, tandis que le Public [...] me couvrait d'applaudissements [...]".
- The daughter of the singer Marianna Rossi, Giovanna Rossi-Caccia studied voice with Marco Bordogni and Adelina Dalmani-Naldi. She sang in the choir at the Théâtre-Italien before her debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1836. She often filled in for Cinti-Damoreau when she was ill, and created roles in more than a dozen operas, most of which only had a short life on the stage, including Léonor in "Piquillo" (1837) and Palmyre in "La Figurante" (1838). She married the a pharmacist Alphonse Bonnevin in 1837. She went on a tour to Italy in 1849, and, having been widowed, remarried a young sculptor, Carlo Caccia..