Teresa Mariani
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Born | (1868-10-24)24 October 1868 Florence, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 1 August 1914(1914-08-01) (aged 45) Castelfranco Veneto, Kingdom of Italy |
Other names | Teresina Mariani-Zampieri |
Occupation | Actress |
Teresa Mariani (24 October 1868[1] – 1 August 1914) was an Italian actress.
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Early life
Mariani was born into a family of performers in Florence. She began her acting career as a small child, in a Paris production of Ernest Legouvé's Medea, sharing the stage with Adelaide Ristori.[2][3]
Career
Mariani was a comic and dramatic actress who performed in throughout Europe and toured in the Caribbean and South America.[4][5][6] She worked in various theatre companies, including those run by Ermete Novelli and Cesare Rossi.[7] She was head actress with her own touring company from 1894 to 1908,[8] with the other members including her husband Vittorio Zampieri [ca], Achille Majeroni, Maria Melato, Ernesto Sabbatini, and Arturo Falconi. In 1898, she was the first actress to play Ibsen's Nora in Uruguay, when she starred in her company's production of A Doll's House in Montevideo.[9] She sat for a portrait by Spanish painter Ramon Casas, who also used her image to illustrate the share certificates for Hispano Suiza Fabrica de Automoviles SA.
Mariani also appeared in a silent film, Situazione comica (1909). A few months before her death in 1914, she performed in Greek classical dramas in Verona, with Gualtiero Tumiati.[10]
Personal life
Mariani married actor Vittorio Zampieri.[2] She died from heart failure in 1914, aged 45 years, at Castelfranco Veneto.
References
- ^ Some sources give her birth year as 1871, including IMDb.
- ^ a b Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. 1922. pp. 948–949.
- ^ "La Mariani". Cuba y America: Revista ilustrada (in Spanish). 6: 86. 19 January 1902.
- ^ "La Mariani y la Crítica Italiana". El Mundo Ilustrado. 8. 25 August 1901.
- ^ "Le Nostre Attrici: Teresa Mariani". Il Teatro Ilustrato. 15–31 December 1906.
- ^ "Noches italianas". Cuba y America: Revista ilustrada (in Spanish). 6: 82–83. 19 January 1902.
- ^ Noccioli, Guido (1982). Duse on Tour: Guido Noccioli's Diaries, 1906–07. Manchester University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7190-0847-4.
- ^ "Teresina Mariani". Musica e Musicisti. 58: 530. June 1903.
- ^ Holledge, Julie; Bollen, Jonathan; Helland, Frode; Tompkins, Joanne (15 September 2016). A Global Doll's House: Ibsen and Distant Visions. Springer. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-137-43899-7.
- ^ "Il Teatro Greco all'Arena di Verona". L'Italia (in Italian). 3 May 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 6 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Teresa Mariani at IMDb
- An autographed picture of Teresina Mariani as a young woman, in the collection of the Cini Foundation's Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera