Chronological list of operatic sopranos

This is a chronological list of sopranos who have performed in operas from classical music of the Western world. The list spans from operatic sopranos active in the first operas of the late 16th century to singers currently performing. Singers who have recorded opera arias or sung them in concert but have never performed in an opera are not included in this list. Singers are sorted by their year of birth. Those singers whose birth year is unknown are sorted by the first year that they are known to have flourished. This list should not include singers who have never performed in a staged opera with the exception of historic non-white singers who were barred from the opera stage in varying parts of the world due to discrimination prior to the mid-20th century.

Operatic sopranos born in the 15th and 16th centuries

Before 1600 Vittoria Archilei () Virginia Ramponi-Andreini (1583– c. 1630) Caterina Martinelli (1589 or 1590–1608) Settimia Caccini (1591– c. 1638)

1600–1649 Margherita Costa (c.1600– after 1657) Anna Renzi (b. 1620– after 1661) Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628–1688)

1650–1699

Antonia Coresi () Marie Aubry (c.1656–1704) Marie Le Rochois (c. 1658–1728) Mlle Saint-Christophle () Maria Landini (c. 1668–1722) Fanchon Moreau (1668– after 1743) Louison Moreau () Maria Maddalena Musi (1669–1751) Vittoria Tarquini (1670–1746) Anne Bracegirdle (1671–1748) Mary Hodgson (1673–1719?) Diamante Maria Scarabelli (1675–1754) Françoise Journet (1675–1722) Giulia Francesca Zuffi () Margherita de L'Épine (c. 1680–1746) Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti (c. 1680–1742) Marie-Louise Desmatins () Letitia Cross (1682–1737) Margarita Salicola () Anna Maria Torri () Marianna Bulgarelli (c. 1684–1734) Catherine Tofts (c. 1685–1756) Santa Stella (c. 1686–1759) Marie Antier (1687–1747) Johanna Elisabeth Döbricht (1692–1786) Anastasia Robinson (c. 1692–1755) Rosa Borosini (c. 1693– after 1740) Livia Nannini Costantini () Francesca Cuzzoni (1696–1778)

Operatic sopranos born in the 18th century 1700–1739

Margherita Durastanti () Maria Giustina Turcotti (c. 1700– after 1763) Joanna Maria Lindehleim ( – died 1724) Maria Gallia () Catherine-Nicole Lemaure (1704–1786) Marie Pélissier (1706 or 1707–1749) Isabella Girardeau () Mademoiselle Petitpas (1710–1739) Kitty Clive (1711–1785) Maria Manina () Cecilia Young (1712–1789) Marie Fel (1713–1794) Ann Turner Robinson ( – died 1741) Élisabeth Duparc (c. 1715–1778) Elisabeth Lillström (1717–1791) Anna Maria Strada () Celeste Gismondi ( – died 1735) Regina Mingotti (1722–1808) Teresa Cornelys (1723–1797) Christina Maria Avoglio () Giulia Frasi (c. 1730–1772) Antonia Maria Girelli (c. 1730- after 1773) Anna Lucia de Amicis (c. 1733–1816) Margherita Chimenti () Marie-Jeanne Larrivée Lemière (1733–1786) Dorothea Wendling (1736–1811) Yelizaveta Belogradskaya (1739– c. 1764)

1740s

Sophie Arnould (1740–1802) Elisabeth Olin (1740–1828) Antonia Bernasconi (1741–1803) Lucrezia Aguiari (born 1743 or 1746–1783)Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell. "Aguiari [Agujari], Lucrezia ['La Bastardina', 'La Bastardella']", Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Maria Anna Fesemayr (1743–1782) Marie-Thérèse Laruette (1744–1837) Elisabeth Wendling (1746–1786) Maria Anna Braunhofer (1748–1819) Franziska Romana Koch (1748–1796) Hedvig Wigert (1748–1780) Rosalie Levasseur (1749–1826) Giovanna Sestini (1749Archivio della Curia Arcivescovile di Firenze. Libri dei Battezzati della Pieve di S. Martino a Gangalandi in Lastra a Signa (Firenze) : I - R.P.C 836 -1-battesimi dal 1727 al 1746: 194–1814)

1750s

Lovisa Augusti (1751–1790) Maddalena Allegranti (1754– after 1801) Josepha Duschek (1754–1824) Cecilia Davies (1756 or 1757–1836) Antoinette Saint-Huberty (1756–1812) Brigida Banti (c. 1757–1806) Caterina Bondini (1757– after 1791) Harriett Abrams (c. 1758–1821) Marie Louise Marcadet (1758–1804) Josepha Weber (1758–1819) Adriana Ferrarese del Bene (1759– after 1803)

1760s

Friederike Bethmann-Unzelmann (1760–1815) Celeste Coltellini (1760–1828) Luisa Laschi (1760–c.1790) Aloysia Weber (c. 1760–1839) Christina Rahm (1763–1837) Teresa Saporiti (1763–1869) Christiane Haßloch (1764–1829) Jeanne-Charlotte Schroeder (1764–1850) Sofia Liljegren (1765–1795) Nancy Storace (1765–1817) Adélaïde Gavaudan (1767–1805) Rose Renaud (1767–c. 1840) Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (1768–1803) Julie-Angélique Scio (1768–1807) Marianne Willmann (1768–1813)

1770s

Marianne Sessi (born c.1770–1776 – died 1847) Magdalena Willmann (1771–1801) Marianne Müller (1772–1851) Antonia Campi (1773–1822) Margarete Luise Schick (1773–1809) Tatyana Shlykova (1773–1863) Therese Rosenbaum (1774–1837) Teresa Bertinotti (1776–1854) Jane Bianchi (1776–1858) Maria Anna Tauber () Friederike Vohs (1777–1860)

1780s

Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu (1780–1850) Margherita Chabran (born 1780?) Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani (1780–1828) Angelica Catalani (1780–1849) Joaquina Sitches (1780–1864) Alexandrine Marie Agathe Gavaudan-Ducamel (1781–1850) Violante Camporesi (1785–1839) Charlotte Häser (1784–1871) Louise Müller (1784–1837) Jeanette Wässelius (1784–1853) Isabella Colbran (1785–1845) Cécile Duret-Saint-Aubin (1785–1862) Anna Milder-Hauptmann (1785–1838) Antonia Laucher (1786–1871) Antoinette Lemonnier (1787–1866) Franziska Sontag (1787 or 1789–1865) Margarethe Carl (1788–1861) Cathinka Buchwieser (1789–1828) Joséphine Fodor (1789 or 1793–1870) Marie Zinck (1789–1823)

1790s

Carolina Crespi (c.1790– after 1842) Karoline Seidler-Wranitzky (1790–1872) Anna Maria Sessi (1790–1864) Anna Sofia Sevelin (1790–1871) Augustine Albert (1791– after 1846) Fanny Corri-Paltoni (1791 or 1792–1861) Therese Grünbaum (1791–1876) Ester Mombelli (1792– after 1827) Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni (1793–1872) Alexandrine Saint-Aubin (1793–1867) Justina Casagli (1794–1841) Zulmé Dabadie (1795–1877)Birth record; death record. Caroline Grassari (1795– after 1832) Friederike Funk (1796– after 1863) Henriette Widerberg (1796–1872) Caroline Willmann (1796– c. 1860) Giuditta Pasta (1797–1865) Anna Bondra (1798–1836) Henriette Méric-Lalande (1799–1867) Clara Vespermann (1799–1827)

Operatic sopranos born in the 19th century 1800s

1800 Elizabeth Austin (c. 1800 – after 1835) Luigia Boccabadati (1800–1850) Rosalbina Caradori-Allan (1800–1865) Emilie Pohlmann (c. 1800–1875) Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis (1800–1853) Henriette Spitzeder (1800–1828) Karoline Stern (1800–1885) Adelaide Tosi (c. 1800–1859) 1801 Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801–1863) 1802 Mary Ann Paton (1802–1864) Geneviève-Aimé-Zoë Prévost (1802–1861) 1803 Emilie da Fonseca (1803–1884) Margarethe Stockhausen (1803–1877) 1804 Wilhelmina Enbom (1804–1880) Nanette Schechner (1804–1860) 1801 Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804–1860) 1805 Caterina Canzi (1805–1890) Julie Dorus-Gras (1805–1896) 1806 Fanny Ayton (1806–1891) Caroline Fischer-Achten (1806–1896) Anna Fischer-Maraffa (1806–1866) Henriette Sontag (1806–1854) 1807 Giacinta Toso (1807–1889) 1808 Franziska Cornet (1808–1870) Jane Shirreff (1808–1883) Eugenia Tadolini (1808–1872) 1809 Sabine Heinefetter (1809–1872) Maria Theresia Löw (1809–1885) Nadezhda Repina (1809–1867)

1810s

1810 Anna Bishop (1810–1884) Konstancja Gładkowska (1810–1889) 1811 Pauline Decker (1811–1882) Giulia Grisi (1811–1869) Elisa Orlandi (1811–1834) 1812 Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani (1812–1867) 1813 Teresa Brambilla (1813–1895) Maria Flécheux (1813–1842) 1814 Cornélie Falcon (1814–1897) Mathilda Gelhaar (1814–1889) 1815 Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi (1815–1879) Rita Gabussi (c.1815–1891) Fanny Salvini-Donatelli (1815–1891) Antonietta Marini-Rainieri (c. 1815–1870) Mariya Stepanova (1815–1903) Giuseppina Strepponi (1815–1897) 1816 Mademoiselle Monrose (1816–1893) Catharine Simonsen (1816–1849) Klara Stöckl-Heinefetter (1816–1857) 1817 Teresa De Giuli Borsi (1817–1877) Adelina Catalani () Marianna Barbieri-Nini (1818–1887) Euphrasie Borghèse (born 1818) Livia Frege (1818–1891) Erminia Frezzolini (1818–1884) Clara Novello (1818–1908) Louise Sahlgreen (1818–1891) 1819 Jeanne-Anaïs Castellan (1819– after 1858) Wilhelmina Fundin (1819–1911) Kathinka Heinefetter (1819–1858) Anna Thillon (1819-1903)

1820s

1820 Sophie Diez (1820–1887) Jenny Lind (1820–1887) Mathilde Wildauer (1820–1878) 1821 1822 Julie Berwald (1822–1877) Anna Zerr (1822–1881) 1823 Louise Lavoye (1823–1897) Rosina Penco (1823–1894) Paulina Rivoli (1823–1881) 1824 Eliza Biscaccianti (1824–1896) Jenny Bürde-Ney (1824–1886) Marietta Gazzaniga (1824–1884) Rosine Laborde (1824–1907) 1825 Therese Braunecker-Schäfer (1825–1888) Malvina Garrigues (1825–1904) Anna de La Grange (1825–1905) Balbina Steffenone (1825–1896) 1826 Marie Carandini (1826–1894) Sophie Cruvelli (1826–1907) Mathilda Ebeling (1826–1851) 1827 Marie Cabel (1827–1885) Rosa von Milde (1827–1906) Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (1827–1895) Teresa Parodi (1827– after 1878) Margherita Zenoni (c. 1827–1878)s.n. (6 July 1878). "Melbourne Gossip". Otago Daily Times, p. 6. Retrieved 1 July 2019. 1828 Clara M. Brinkerhoff (1828– after 1901) Rebecca Isaacs (1828–1877) Caroline Lefebvre (1828–1905) Maria Spezia-Aldighieri (1828–1907) 1829 Luisa Cappiani (1829–1919) Lucy Escott (1829–1895) Delphine Ugalde (1829–1910)

1830s

1830 Caroline Barbot (1830–1893) Angiolina Bosio (1830–1859) Caroline Girard (born 1830) Louise Michaëli (1830–1875) 1831 Inez Fabbri (1831–1909) Emmy La Grua (1831–1922) Luise Meyer-Dustmann (1831–1899) Marcella Lotti della Santa (1831–1901) Thérèse Tietjens (1831–1877) 1832 Caroline Duprez (1832–1875) Eleonora Ehrenbergová (1832–1912) 1833 Mathilda Enequist (1833–1898) Hortense Schneider (1833–1920) Marie Wilt (1833–1891) 1834 Ottilie Genée (1834–1911) Pauline Guéymard-Lauters (1834–1918)Pauline Lauters entry at Art Lyrique website accessed 23 August 2019. Archive copy (30 October 2019). Helen Lemmens-Sherrington (1834–1906) Luise Limbach (1834–1909) Angiolina Ortolani-Tiberini (1834–1913) Marietta Piccolomini (1834–1899) Ema Pukšec (1834–1889) Marie Sasse (1834–1907) Teresa Stolz (1834–1902) Lise Tautin (1834–1874) 1835 Désirée Artôt (1835–1907) Léontine de Maësen (1835–1906) Carlotta Marchisio (1835–1872) Carlotta Patti (1835–1889) Fanny Simonsen (c.1835–1896) 1836 Eufrosyne Abrahamson (1836–1869) Marie Geistinger (1836–1903) Friederike Grün (1836–1917) Bernardine Hamaekers (1836–1912) Louise Harriers-Wippern (1836–1878) Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa (1836–1874) Fredrika Stenhammar (1836–1880) 1837 Wilhelmina Gelhaar (1837–1923) Signe Hebbe (1837–1925) Lucille Tostée (1837–1874) 1838 Marie Battu (1838–1919) Julia Espín y Pérez de Collbrand (1838–1906) Adele Passy-Cornet (1838–1915) Sophie Stehle (1838–1921) 1839 Carolina Ferni (1839–1926) Anna Henriette Levinsohn (1839–1899) Minna Peschka-Leutner (1839–1890)

1840s

1840 Antonietta Fricci (1840–1912) Júlia Gusztinyi ( – died 1849) 1841 Zulma Bouffar (1841–1909) Alice Ducasse (1841–1923) Pauline Lucca (1841–1908) Aglaja Orgeni (1841–1926) Yuliya Platonova (1841–1892) 1842 Clara Louise Kellogg (1842–1916) Gabrielle Krauss (1842–1906) Melitta Otto-Alvsleben (1842–1893) Eugenie Pappenheim (born c.1842–1849 – died 1924) Sarah Edith Wynne (1842–1897) 1843 Marie Cico (1843–1875) Anna Deinet (1843–1919) Laurence Grivot (1843–1890) Elisabeth Kohut-Mannstein (1843–1926) Christina Nilsson (1843–1921) Adelina Patti (1843–1919) 1844 Emma Howson (1844–1928) Amalie Materna (1844–1918) Rosina Palmer (1844–1932) Hermine von Siegstädt (1844–1883) 1845 Teresina Brambilla (1845–1921) Lina Frieb (1845–1876) Rose Hersee (1845–1924) Anna Kaufmann (1845– died after 1870) Henriette Müller-Marion (1845–1921) Ángela Peralta (1845–1883) Therese Vogl (1845–1921) 1846 Ida Basilier-Magelssen (1846–1928) Marie Roze (1846–1926) 1847 Emma Albani (1847–1930) Emma Fursch-Madi (1847–1894) Fanny Holland (1847–1931) Mathilde Mallinger (1847–1920) Alice May (1847–1887) Romilda Pantaleoni (1847–1917) Adelina Paschalis-Souvestre (1847–1925) Julie Rosewald (1847–1906) 1848