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Grove Music Online
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Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson: 'Benini, Anna', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 14 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Benini, Anna (fl 1784–91). Italian soprano. She was prima buffa in the Italian opera company at the King’s Theatre, London, in the 1786–7 season, when Burney found her singing ‘extremely graceful and pleasing’[…]. She had come from Naples with her husband, the tenor Mengozzi, but the London climate disagreed with him and they moved to Paris. She was singing at Venice in 1791. Richard Mount Mount Edgcumbe wrote that her voice lacked power but was of ‘exquisite sweetness’.
Michel Noiray : 'Mengozzi, Bernardo', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 14 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"His London début was in February 1787 as a tenor in the Haymarket company, to which his wife, the soprano Anna Benini, also belonged. The Mengozzis went to Versailles during the summer of 1787 with other singers from the Haymarket for performances of Italian opera buffa; they then settled in Paris, and in 1789 joined the company of the Théâtre de Monsieur […]"
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