Teresa Mariani

Teresa Mariani
A photograph of a smiling woman wearing a fur coat and a large hat
Born(1868-10-24)24 October 1868
Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Died1 August 1914(1914-08-01) (aged 45)
Castelfranco Veneto, Kingdom of Italy
Other namesTeresina Mariani-Zampieri
OccupationActress

Teresa Mariani (24 October 1868[1] – 1 August 1914) was an Italian actress.

A 1905 share certificate for La Hispano Suiza, featuring a portrait of Mariani by Ramon Casas

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

  1. ^ Some sources give her birth year as 1871, including IMDb.
  2. ^ a b Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. 1922. pp. 948–949.
  3. ^ "La Mariani". Cuba y America: Revista ilustrada (in Spanish). 6: 86. 19 January 1902.
  4. ^ "La Mariani y la Crítica Italiana". El Mundo Ilustrado. 8. 25 August 1901.
  5. ^ "Le Nostre Attrici: Teresa Mariani". Il Teatro Ilustrato. 15–31 December 1906.
  6. ^ "Noches italianas". Cuba y America: Revista ilustrada (in Spanish). 6: 82–83. 19 January 1902.
  7. ^ Noccioli, Guido (1982). Duse on Tour: Guido Noccioli's Diaries, 1906–07. Manchester University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7190-0847-4.
  8. ^ "Teresina Mariani". Musica e Musicisti. 58: 530. June 1903.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Il Teatro Greco all'Arena di Verona". L'Italia (in Italian). 3 May 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 6 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.