Calle Lorenza Correa
Recalls the Málaga-born soprano Lorenza Correa (b. 1773), who rose from the theatres of Madrid to the great stages of Paris and Milan in the early 19th century.
Lorenza Correa was born in Málaga in 1773, the daughter of actors, and soon sang tonadilla and Italian opera. She worked for years in the royal theatres of Madrid until 1804 when, after a clash with the management, she left Spain and threw herself onto the stages of Paris and the Italian cities.
In Milan she reached her peak: on 26 December 1813, at La Scala, she premiered the role of Queen Zenobia in Aureliano in Palmira, an opera Rossini wrote for her. Of her renown there survives a 1803 portrait attributed to Goya. The last record of her dates from 1831, when she petitioned Ferdinand VII for a pension.
Calle Lorenza Correa lies in Bellas Vistas, in northern Madrid, between the Glorieta de Miguel Rubiales and Calle de Jerónima Llorente.