Maria Anna Adamberger
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Maria Anna/Anna Marie "Nanny" Adamberger (23 October 1752 – 5 November 1807), born Jaquet, was an Austrian actress. She played ingénue roles in comedies and originated the role of Madame Vogelsang in Der Schauspieldirektor ("The Impresario") by Mozart.
CareerEdit
Adamberger received her training from her father, actor Karl J. Jacquet (1726–1813).<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> She started playing in the Theater nächst der Burg ("Theatre Next to the Castle") in 1760, at the age of 8, and became a member of the company in 1768, aged 16.<ref name=":0" /> After playing some tragic roles and not being satisfied with the success she achieved in them, she decided to perform only in comedies.<ref name=":0" />
She became known as an excellent ingénue playing the roles of naïve or lively and whimsical young women in comedies<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref> and achieved considerable success and fame.<ref name=":0" /> In 1786, she originated the spoken role of Madame Vogelsang in Woflgang Amadeus Mozart's {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("The Impresario"), playing opposite of her husband as Monsieur Vogelsang.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She retired in 1798, aged 46, her last role being that of Gurli in {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Indians in England").<ref name=":0" />
Adamberger remained a favourite of audiences throughout her whole career, and contemporary Viennese poets such as Heinrich Joseph von Collin wrote many poems praising her.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She was one of the first actors whose picture was included in the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Gallery of Honour") of the company, depicting her in her role as Rofine in {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("The Lawyer and the Peasant").<ref name=":0" /> Ernst Brandes wrote about her that "it would not be possible" to play a mischievous peasant woman or a naughty city girl in a "truer and more endearing" way. He described her as charming with a "gracefully built" body and a pleasant face, her facial expressions as admirable. She also had a technique for delivering confessions that her character did not want to make: she bit down on the words in a very natural way.<ref name=":0" />
According to Mener, she belonged "only in Template:Ill", a specifically German and bourgeois type of comedy as opposed to the French courtly comedies of Molière and the coarser genres of {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("farce with singing") and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He also asserted that whoever saw her play in {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} "forgot that there could be anything outside of the comedy" and that she could "entertain the mind, move the heart and delight the soul". He agreed that she was "unique, peculiar, inimitable and charming".<ref name=":0" />
Personal lifeEdit
Template:Multiple image Adamberger was born on 23 October 1752 in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, the daughter of court actor Karl J. Jaquet (1726–1813).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She had a younger sister, Katharina (1760–1786).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> from an early age, her father wanted her to become an actress, and trained her himself.<ref name=":0" /> She married operatic tenor (Josef) Valentin Adamberger "Valentino Adamonti" (1743–1804)<ref name=":1" /> in 1781<ref name=":0" /> and had one daughter with him, actress Antonie "Toni" von Arnet (born Adamberger) (1790–1867), born 31 December 1790.<ref name=":1" /> Maria was widowed in 1804 and died on 5 November 1807 in Vienna, aged 55.<ref name=":0" />
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