Post by cammiegiambattista on Mar 16, 2010 21:43:42 GMT -5
THIS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CAMILLA GIAMBATTISTA [/color][/font]
At 16 years old, Camilla begged her parents to send her to a music conservatory to hone her gift, to give her the means to become a professional singer. With some degree of reluctance at the idea of sending their daughter away, her parents finally agreed, and at 17 years old, Camilla found herself living in Sardinia with her spinster aunts and attending Il Cantiamo Bene, a prestigious Italian music conservatory with a greatly lauded operatic course.
While debuting in the role of Amneris in Verdi's Aida, the fiery-tempered orchestra conductor lost his temper (for the nth time) with the first violinist between acts, and snatched his instrument from the violinist's hands, unseating the fingerboard from the body of the violin in the process. Under the request of the extremely frayed-nerved house manager, a luthier was summoned to repair the instrument and restore it to a condition to be played for a packed house of hundreds in fifteen minutes. Leopoldo Giambattista was a young luthier, his apprenticeship only recently completed, but proved himself beyond a shadow of a doubt that night, and the show went on. Following the curtain call, Camilla sought out the young luthier to express her gratitude in his saving her debut, and the two found themselves in a whirlwind romance. Camilla returned to America eight years later with a finely honed mezzosoprano voice and a new last name.
Camilla and Leopoldo settled again in Philadelphia for a while, until Camilla met with the director of the Metropolitan Opera Company during an annual presentation at the Chestnut Street Opera House, and was offered a place in the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City. Leopoldo, always supportive of Camilla's lofty ambitions, encouraged her to accept, and the two moved to Manhattan in 1893.
Camilla is a woman of drive, her ambitions knowing no bounds and firmly of the belief that anything is within reach if you only want it badly enough. With full vitality and fuller hips, it could be easy for one to feel overwhelmed in her presence, her passions prone to sweeping up those around her. She's a person who knows nothing of emotional moderation. In possession of almost all her dreams, with an ample lifestyle and an adoring, dedicated husband at her side, the only thing missing from her life is a family. Being the mother of a large brood is the one dream that, despite years of trying and praying and trying some more, continues to elude the Giambattistas.[/ul]
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