Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Agricola, Benedetta Emilia Molteni

by John Weeks Moore

Agricola, Benedetta Emilia Molteni, wife of J. F. Agricola, was a singer at the opera of Berlin, to which place she came in 1742. She had been a pupil of Porpora, Hasse, and Salimbeni. When fifty years of age, she still sang bravura airs in an astonishing manner.