Teresa Mariani (24 October 1868[1] – 1 August 1914) was an Italian actress.
Teresa Mariani | |
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| Born | 24 October 1868 |
| Died | 1 August 1914 (aged 45) Castelfranco Veneto, Kingdom of Italy |
| Other names | Teresina Mariani-Zampieri |
| Occupation | Actress |
Early life
editMariani 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
editMariani 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, 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
editMariani married actor Vittorio Zampieri.[2] She died from heart failure in 1914, aged 45 years, at Castelfranco Veneto.
References
edit- ^ 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
edit- 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