disappeared. Her date of death is unknown. According to musicologist Giovanni Andrea Sechi, one of Anton Maria Zanetti's drawings of a female singer en travesti and labelled by him as "La Negri" is in all probability a portrait of her and not of the soprano Antonia Negri Tomii (known as "La Mestrina ") as previously thought. Roles created Elvira in Giuseppe Maria Buini's La fede ne' tradimenti (Teatro dell'Accademia dei Remoti, Faenza, 26 March 1723) Bradamante in Vivaldi's Orlando furioso (Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, November 1727) Arsace in Vivaldi's Rosilena ed Oronta (Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, January 1728) Virate in Giuseppe Maria Nelvi's Siface re di Numidia (Frankfurt, January 1732) Carilda in Handel's Arianna in Creta (King's Theatre, London, 26 January 1734) Clori in Handel's Parnasso in festa (King's Theatre, London, 13 March 1734) Filotete in Handel's Oreste (Theatre Royal, London, 18 December 1734) Polinesso in Handel's Ariodante (Theatre Royal, London, 8 January 1735) Bradamante in Handel's Alcina (Theatre Royal, London, 16 April 1735) Irene in Handel's Atalanta (Theatre Royal, London, 12 May 1736) Tullio in Handel's Arminio (Theatre Royal, London, 12 January 1737) Amanzio in Handel's Giustino (Theatre Royal, London, 16 February 1737) Arsace in Handel's Berenice (Theatre Royal, London, 18 May 1737) Notes References Operatic contraltos Italian opera singers 1704 births 18th-century deaths Musicians from Bologna Female-to-male cross-dressers 18th-century Italian women opera singers