(1766 - 1817), actress and singer, dau. of Stefano Storace of Naples.
1778 - 84 Naples, Venice, Florence (summer 1779 - 1780), Lucca, Leghorn, Parma (1781), Milan (1782) [Vienna 1784]
c.1798 - c.1800 see John Braham
At the age of twelve, and with the receipts from a benefit concert held for her in London in April 1778, Anna Storace accompanied her father to Naples, where she sang in concerts given in the S.Carlo theatre during Lent. Her brother Stephen, an equally gifted young musician, was then studying there. Anna went on to study in Venice under Sacchini, and Florence, where she played at the Pergola theatre in 1780. She sang in Parma in 1781 and at La Scala Milan in 1782. In 1784 she was engaged to sing in Vienna. She had returned to England by 1787 (DNB). Michael Kelly recalled Anna as the prima donna of the Comic Opera at Leghorn at the age of fifteen, i.e. in 1781.1 Mount Edgcumbe considered that 'a harshness in her countenance, a clumsiness of figure, a coarseness in her voice, and vulgarity of manner, ... totally unfitted her for the serious opera, which she never attempted'.2
For her second visit to Italy, see John Braham.
1. Kelly, Reminiscences, 1:96. 2. Mount Edgcumbe, 63.