Antonia Campi, néeAntonina Miklasiewicz (10 December 1773 – 1 October 1822) was a Polish operatic soprano.
Life
Born in Lublin, she began her career in 1785 in Lublin. In 1788, she became a singer at the court of Stanisław August Poniatowski in Warsaw. In 1789, she studied at the Royal School of Singing. She quickly became a celebrity in Poland as well as abroad for her unusual voice: she could sing three octaves.[1] She was invited to perform in Warsaw and also in concerts around Prague, where she settled in 1791, in the company of the impresario Guardoni[2] There she married the first singer of the opera, the bass Gaetano Campi.[3] 2 February 1791.[4] They had 17 children, with 4 pairs of twins and once triplets.[4]
At the opening of the new theatre built by Emanuel Schikaneder in Vienna on 13 June 1801, she came to sing the role of Clara in Franz Teyber's opera Alessandro. The Italian composer Ferdinando Paer wrote especially for her the opera Sargino, ossia l'allievo d'amore (Vienna, 1803).
From 1818 to 1822 she was engaged as prima donna at the court theatre in Vienna.[3] In 1818, she was appointed first imperial singer (ersten kaiserlichen Sängerin).[3]
In 1817 and 1820, Campi made an artistic trip to Europe: to Italy, Germany (Mannheim in September 1818, Leipzig and Dresden in October 1818) and Poland (Warsaw in September 1820).[5] She was particularly appreciated for her interpretations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas.
She died on 1 October 1822 at the age of 48 of meningitis during a tour in Munich.
^p. 168: « L'étendue de la la voix de Mme Campi sortait des bornes ordinaires, car elle commençait au sol grave et allait jusqu'au fa suraigu, c'est-à-dire trois octaves environ plus haut »
^Walther Brauneis, Wer war Mozarts "Sig[no]ra Antonini" in der Prager Uraufführung von 'La Clemenza di Tito' KV 621? Zur Identifizierung der Antonina Miklaszewicz als Interpretin der Servilia in der Krönungsoper am 6. September 1791, in Rudolph Angermüller e Giacomo Fornari (a cura di), Mozart : le arie da concerto, Mozart e la musica massonica dei suoi tempi / die Konzertarien, Mozart und die Freimaurermusik seiner Zeit. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Rovereto, 26–27 September 1998 / Bericht des internationalen Kongresses, Rovereto, 26–27 September 1998, Bad Honnef, Bock, 2001, pp. 69–79. ISBN9783870668259.
Constantin von Wurzbach (1857). "Campi, Antonia" . In Verlag der typografisch-literarisch-artistischen Anstalt (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.) (ed.). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 2. Theil (in German). Vienna. p. 247.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Constantin von Wurzbach (1868). "Miklasiewicz, Antonia" . In Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (ed.). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 18. Theil (in German). Vienna. p. 269.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Ludwig Eisenberg (1903). "Campi Antoinette". In Paul List (ed.). Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert (in German). Leipzig: Leipzig P. List. p. 149.
Albert Sowinski (1857). "Campi (Antonia)". In Adrien Le Clere et Cie (ed.). Les musiciens polonais et slaves anciens et modernes dictionnaire biographique des compositeurs, chanteurs ... Précédé d'un résumé de l'histoire de la musique en Pologne et de la description d'anciens instruments slaves (in French). Paris: Librairie Adrien Le Clere et C.ie. pp. 109–11.
