page_title: Giuditta Pasta
section_title: Roles written specifically for Pasta
hierarchical_section_title: Giuditta Pasta / Career / Roles written specifically for Pasta
caption_attribution_description: English: Giuditta Pasta as Amina-May 1831 premiere
context_page_description: Giuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Pasta was an Italian soprano opera singer. She has been compared to the 20th-century soprano Maria Callas.
context_section_description: She sang regularly in London, Paris, Milan and Naples between 1824 and 1837. In Milan she created three roles which were written for her voice. They were the title role of Donizetti's Anna Bolena given at the Teatro Carcano in 1830 (and which was that composer's greatest success to date), the Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula and the protagonist's part of his Norma (both in 1831), which became three of her major successes. Stendhal had argued persuasively in 1824 for the necessity of a score composed expressly for Pasta.
caption: Giuditta Pasta as Amina, May 1831 premiere
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