Agricola, Benedetta Emilia (née Molteni)
Agricola, Benedetta Emilia (née Molteni)
Agricola, Benedetta Emilia (née Molteni), Italian soprano; b. Modena, 1722; d. Berlin, 1780. She was a student of Porpora, Hasse, and Salimbeni. In 1743 she made her debut in Berlin in C.H. Graun’s Cesare e Cleopatra, and was the principal soprano at the court until Giovanna Astrua’s arrival in 1748. In 1751 she married Johann Friedrich Agricola, and continued in the service of the court until his death in 1774, upon which she was dismissed.
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