Credit: Jean-Baptiste Singry, restored by Adam Cuerden
The French soprano Joséphine Fodor who made her debut in 1810 in Fioravanti's, Le cantatrici villane at the Impérial Opera of Saint Petersburg singing in both Russian and French. Rossini wrote a special aria for her when she sang Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in 1820.