Antonia Campi

Antonia Campi, "née" Antonina Miklasiewicz (10 December 1773 – 1 October 1822) was a Polish operatic soprano.
Life.
Born in Lublin, she began her career in 1785 in Lublin. In 1788, she became a singer at the court of Stanisław August Poniatowski in Warsaw. In 1789, she studied at the Royal School of Singing. She quickly became a celebrity in Poland as well as abroad for her unusual voice: she could sing three octaves. She was invited to perform in Warsaw and also in concerts around Prague, where she settled in 1791, in the company of the impresario Guardoni There she married the first singer of the opera, the bass Gaetano Campi. 2 February 1791. They had 17 children, with 4 pairs of twins and once triplets.
At the opening of the new theatre built by Emanuel Schikaneder in Vienna on 13 June 1801, she came to sing the role of Clara in Franz Teyber's opera "Alessandro". The Italian composer Ferdinando Paer wrote especially for her the opera "Sargino, ossia l'allievo d'amore" (Vienna, 1803).
From 1818 to 1822 she was engaged as prima donna at the court theatre in Vienna. In 1818, she was appointed first imperial singer ("ersten Kaiserlichen Sängerin").
In 1817 and 1820, Campi made an artistic trip to Europe: to Italy, Germany (Mannheim in September 1818, Leipzig and Dresden in October 1818) and Poland (Warsaw in September 1820). She was particularly appreciated for her interpretations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas.
She died on 1 October 1822 at the age of 48 of meningitis during a tour in Munich.