Giulia Grisi at La Scala, 1831, after Balzico, 1874
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18 x 27" She premiered a role in Bellini's "Norma" at 20, in 1831, at La Scala in Milan; Balzico sculpted a plaster of her for his monument to Bellini, this in 1874, about five years after her untimely death of injuries from a train accident. He worked from paintings and photographs, and possibly some other live model as well. I worked from that plaster which I photographed in November 2017 in Rome. I photographed La Scala opera house in Milan in November 2016 (yes, that's the same interior she sang in).