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Teresa Cornelys (sometimes spelt Theresa; born Anna Maria Teresa Imer, Venice,〔According to F. H. W. Sheppard, ed., ''Survey of London'' volume 33 ''The Parish of St. Anne, Soho (north of Shaftesbury Avenue)'', London County Council, London: University of London, 1966, pp. 73–79, (online at British History Online ), Vienna.〕 1723 – died Fleet Prison, London, 19 August 1797) was an operatic soprano and impresario who hosted fashionable gatherings at Carlisle House in Soho Square. She also had numerous lovers, including Casanova, who was the father of her daughter. ==Early life and opera career== Her father, Giuseppe Imer, was an opera impresario and her mother, Paolina, an actress.〔Judith Summers, ''The Empress of Pleasure: The Life and Adventures of Teresa Cornelys, Queen of Masquerades and Casanova's Lover'', London: Viking, 2003, ISBN 978-0-670-91258-2, (p. 3 ).〕 Her sister Marianna was also an opera singer.〔 Teresa was initiated into seduction by her mother, who had her torment the aged senator Alvise Malipiero, who fell desperately in love with her. At the same time she met Casanova, then the senator's protégé.〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', pp. 16–18, 23–24.〕 But she refused the senator's offer of marriage. In 1745, Malipiero died and she followed Angelo Pompeati, a dancer and choreographer and former Master of the Venetian Ballet to Vienna, where he was working at the court of Empress Maria Theresa, and they were married in St. Stephen's Cathedral.〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', p. 28.〕 However, within months she left him behind for an operatic engagement at the King's Theatre in Haymarket, London.〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', pp. 29–30.〕 Her first child, Giuseppe, was almost born on stage in Vienna, in 1746. Her husband never acknowledged him.〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', p. 40.〕 After a period travelling with Gluck and his opera company, her second child was born in Bayreuth in 1753 and was named Wilhelmine after Wilhelmine of Prussia, the wife of the Margrave Frederick, who may have been the child's father.〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', p. 49.〕 She was back in Bayreuth after a sojourn in Italy when her daughter by Casanova was born early in 1754, and the child was named Sophia Wilhelmina Frederica, again after the margravine.〔Judith Summers, ''Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women he Loved'', London/New York: Bloomsbury, 2006; ISBN 978-0-7475-7744-7, (p. 309 ).〕 Later that year she left her husband forever, initially for Paris.〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', p. 57.〕 By the time Sophia was four, Teresa was leading a peripatetic, increasingly financially desperate existence while entertaining a multitude of lovers.〔 During this period she called herself Madame de Trenti, claiming it was the name of her family estate.〔Sheppard, ''Survey of London'', spelling it 'Trenty'.〕 She was at one point in charge of all the theatres in the Austrian Netherlands. Wilhelmine and a baby to whom Teresa had given birth in Paris both died;〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', p. 63.〕 Teresa was imprisoned for debt in Paris; in 1759 Giuseppe was taken away by Casanova to be raised.〔 Teresa's first appearance in London in 1746, in Gluck's ''La Caduta de' Giganti'', had not been a success.〔Sheppard, ''Survey of London''.〕 A contemporary review was: though nominally second woman, () had such a masculine and violent manner of singing that few female symptoms were perceptible〔Charles Burney, ''History of Music'', volume 4, cited in ''Dictionary of National Biography'', p. 223.〕〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', p. 37.〕 However, in 1759 she was persuaded to return by a man who was then calling himself John Freeman. He had been baptised John Boorder but had inherited a fortune and after that used the name John Fermor in England; he was a cellist and double bassist who told her that he was a Church of England clergyman and that she could make a fortune in London.〔Summers, ''Empress of Pleasure'', (p. 76 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teresa Cornelys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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