Anna Elisabeth Toscani (born 1761, died 1799), née Endemann, was a German actress. She was a student of Friederike Sophie SeylerWilhelm A. Bauer, Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen: Gesamtausgabe - p. 496, 1971 and was one of the leading actresses of the Mannheim National Theatre from 1779 to 1784. She is also notable for being the first "Amalia" in the original performance of Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers on 13 January 1782 at Mannheim.Schiller, Die Räuber – Uraufführung 13.1.1782Marie Haller-Nevermann, Walter Müller-Seidel, Friedrich Schiller: ich kann nicht Fürstendiener sein : eine Biographie, p. 200, Aufbau-Verlag, 2004Herbert Meyer, Schillers Flucht nach Mannheim, p. 12, Mannheim, 1959
She worked under the direction of F.S. Seyler's husband Abel Seyler at the Mannheim National Theatre until 1781, when a quarrel between her and the director led to his retirement.Wilhelm Koffka, "Der Seyler-Toscani'sche Streit (1781)," in Iffland und Dalberg: Geschichte der classischen Theaterzeit Mannheims, p. 538ff, Weber 1865 She was described as a "scheming" character;Alfried Wieczorek, Hansjörg Probst, Wieland Koenig, Lebenslust und Frömmigkeit, p. 407, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 1999 although Friederike Sophie Seyler was also regarded as a very difficult person to work with.
She was married to Giovanni Federico (also known as Johann Friedrich) Toscani, a noted tenor born in Warsaw in the 1750s to an Italian family. Her husband had joined Abel Seyler's travelling company, the Seyler Theatre Company, in 1775.Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens (editors), Großes Sängerlexikon, vol. 4,
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