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Anna Selina Storace

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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'Nancy' Storace was a soprano singer and actress whose parents took her to Italy to launch her career at the age of thirteen. She then spent four years in Vienna (1783–1787) where she sang Susannna in the triumphant first performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (1786). Returning to England in 1787, Storace first performed Italian opera at the King's Theatre. She joined Drury Lane as its most highly paid singer in 1789 and specialised in comic roles. Between 1797 and 1801 she toured Europe with the tenor John Braham, her lover for seventeen years. With her dynamic stage presence and infectious good humour, she brought a strong dramatic sense to English opera.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Anna Selina Storace

Date

c.1790

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.4 x W 63.6 cm

Accession number

6148

Acquisition method

Given by Peter Moores Foundation, 1991

Work type

Painting

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