Teresa Imer ( Italian: Teresa Imer , 1723 , Venice - August 19, 1797 , London ) - Italian singer, theater entrepreneur , salon owner, courtesan , adventurer .
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- 1 Biography
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
The daughter of actor and theater entrepreneur Giuseppe Imera, whose troupe was written by Carlo Goldoni (they met in Verona in 1734 and worked together in Venice). At age 18, she became the mistress of 76-year-old Senator Alvise Gasparo Malipiero, the owner of a luxurious mansion on the Grand Canal ( Palazzo Malipiero ). In his circle she met Casanova , became his girlfriend, gave birth to a daughter from him. As a singer, she made her debut in Venice in 1742 , then performed in Vienna , London, Hamburg , Copenhagen , Paris , Bayreuth . She sang in the operas of Gluck , Iomelli , Baldassare Galuppi , etc. In 1742 or 1743 she married the dancer Angelo Pompeati ( 1701 - 1768 ), in 1755 they separated.
Enjoyed the patronage of the prince of Lorraine . She led a theater troupe in the Netherlands under the name of Mrs. Pompeati. In 1756 - 1757 she performed in Antwerp and Ghent , in April 1757 she sang in Liege . Having gone broke, she changed her name, became Madame Trenti. In Amsterdam, I met again with Casanova. In 1759 she married the wealthy Dutchman Jan Rijgerboos Cornelis, took his last name. In 1760, she settled under this name in London, where she gave magnificent receptions, concerts and costume balls for the English and European aristocracy in the Carlyle family mansion she bought in the Soho quarter [6] . Among those who performed here were Johann Christian Bach and Karl Friedrich Abel , and the opera of Thomas Arn Artaxerxes was staged here. The mansion was furnished by Thomas Chippendale . Receptions and concerts were attended by Samuel Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith , Horeisho Walpole , Fanny Burney and others, the mansion and receptions of Mrs. Cornelis are depicted in the Smollett novel Humphrey Clinker's Journey ( 1771 ).
Madame Cornelis was a very successful entrepreneur. According to her friends, she had a country house in Hammersmith with "three assistants, thirty-two servants, six horses, a dumb and a companion." her daughter received a good education in a Catholic monastery, where she led many affairs.
She went bankrupt again, went to prison, sold the mansion in 1778 , but continued her entrepreneurial activities in another, more modest area of London, where the festivities became more modest. After 1785, she disappeared from the great world, hiding under the name of Mrs. Smith, and sold donkey milk. She died in the Fleet prison in London, where she was imprisoned for debt.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 129929484 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
- ↑ FemBio
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/dec/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview4
- ↑ Carlisle House, Soho Square
Literature
- Summers J. The empress of pleasure: the life and adventures of Teresa Cornelys, queen of masquerades and Casanova's lover. London New York: Viking, 2003 (reprint 2004, rev. Lane 2004)
- Summers J. Casanova's women: the great seducer and the women he loved. London: Bloomsbury, 2006
- Russell G. Women, Sociability and Theater in Georgian London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007, p. 17-37
Links
- Portrait of Teresa Imer (inaccessible link)