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Violetta (performer)

Aloisia Wagner (born 1906/1907, date of death unknown), better known by her stage name Violetta, was born without legs or arms with a condition known as tetra-amelia syndrome. She had a lengthy career in sideshow performance. She was born in Hemelingen, Germany. Her mother was named Elise.

On March 23, 1924 she left Bremen-Hemelingen, Germany, with her step brother and manager, Karl Grobecker, aboard the SS George Washington. They arrived in New York on April 3, 1924. She performed in sideshows as a singer, including Coney Island's Dreamland and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She moved herself by hopping from place to place on the bottom of her torso, and was able to manipulate objects with her mouth enough to comb her own hair, dress herself, thread a needle, and sew. Violetta was married and wore her wedding band on a gold chain around her neck.

Violetta

Violetta may refer to:

  • Violetta (given name)
  • Violetta (instrument), 16th-century musical instrument similar to a violin, but with only three strings
  • Violetta (performer) (born circa 1906), a sideshow performer
  • Violetta (singer), full name Violetta Zironi, Italian singer
  • Violetta (telenovela), a Disney Channel original TV series
    • Violetta (soundtrack), soundtrack album to the eponymous series
  • 557 Violetta, a main-belt asteroid
  • La traviata or Violetta, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi
See also
  • Darling Violetta, dark pop band based in Hollywood, California
  • Miss Violetta Beauregarde, solo electronic-punk project by Italian performer/model Cristina Gauri
  • Pilodeudorix violetta, or the Violet Diopetes, butterfly in the Lycaenidae family
  • Peppino e Violetta, English title Never Take No for an Answer aka The Small Miracle, 1950 Italian film directed by Maurice Cloche
  • Vera Violetta, an operetta
Violetta (given name)

Violetta sometimes Violeta may refer to:

  • Violetta (performer) (1906/1907–??), performer born without arms and legs
  • Violetta (singer), full name Violetta Zironi, Italian singer
  • Violetta Afanasieva (born 1978), Russian figure skater
  • Violetta Blue, a name previously used by the American pornographic actress now known as Noname Jane
  • Violetta Bovt (1927–1995), Russian-American ballet dancer
  • Violeta Chamorro (born 1929), Nicaraguan political leader, former president and publisher
  • Violetta Caldart (born 1969), an Italian curler
  • Violetta Elvin (born 1924), Russian prima ballerina
  • Violetta Kolobova, Russian fencer
  • Violetta Napierska, film actress
  • Violetta Oblinger-Peters (born 1977), German-born, Austrian slalom canoer
  • Violetta Parisini, Austrian singer
  • Violeta Parra (1917–1967), Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist
  • Violetta Quesada (born 1947), a retired sprinter
  • Violetta Villas (1938–2011), a singer and actress

Fictional characters

  • Violetta Valéry, main role in Verdi's opera La traviata
Violetta (telenovela)

Violetta is an Argentine telenovela filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and developed by Disney Channel Latin America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and production company Pol-ka, debuted in its country of origin, Latin America and Italy on May 14, 2012.

Violetta tells the story of a musically talented teenager (played by Argentine actress Martina Stoessel) who returns to her native Buenos Aires with her father, Germán, (played by Diego Ramos) after living in Europe for several years, navigating the trials and tribulations of growing up.

Each episode includes original musical numbers from diverse musical genres such as pop music and popular music.

Violetta (soundtrack)
For other Violetta releases, see Violetta (TV series)#Music

Violetta is the soundtrack album to the eponymous series.

Violetta (instrument)

The violetta was a 16th-century musical instrument. It was similar to a violin, but had only three strings. The term was later used to refer to the viola, particularly the small violas da braccio with the "festoon-shaped body".

Violetta (season 1)

The first season of the Argentine telenovela Violetta started airing in Argentina on May 14, 2012 and ended on October 26, 2012. There were 80 episodes divided into two parts, each with 40 episodes. The first part was titled Su destino es hoy (Her destiny is today), and the second was titled Violetta está cambiando (Violetta is changing).

Violetta (singer)

Violetta Zironi (born April 5, 1995) is an Italian country singer-songwriter. In 2013, she took part in season 7 of the Italian version of The X Factor with her ukulele which soon became her signature instrument. She reached the final and finished third.

To date, she has released two singles and an EP titled Dimmi Che Non Passa containing her debut single " Dimmi che non passa", which was praised as a fresh country-style song, being the first song of this genre entirely produced by Italians.

Usage examples of "violetta".

All alone with the golden thoughts and the quiet poems, I search again for Violetta and the angel and the blue light of heaven.

When Violetta scratched her legs on the blackberry bushes at the bottom of the garden, she lay down on the grass and we watched the bright bubbles of beady blood as they pushed up through the slits in the skin.

I lay quite still on the cushions with my stones around me and books and beads and all my golden treasures and the pastel I did of Violetta, and also my teddy and dolly and golly.

I think of Violetta sleeping, a picture of death, of beautiful violet death.

I place the heart of Violetta in the centre of the circle of the stones and stare and stare until I move into a trance.

I sit for hours in the shadows of the convent garden, sometimes playing on the swings we used to play on when Violetta still was here.

I stare at my eyes in the mirror and I think of Sophie, Jane, Sebastian and their brothers and sisters, my baby babies, Violetta and Violetta and Violetta, the Violetta triplets.

Since Violetta and I were in the garden busy with a plate of cakes, we were assumed to be innocent, although suspicion forever cast its wondering shadow across us, wrinkled its brow and glanced sideways and long at us.

When the afternoon tea in the music room was progressing with its Lapsang Souchong and a little Schubert, we tiptoed in the side door and Violetta stood on the chair beneath the clock.

Then Violetta said she had always wanted to make time go backwards, and her fingers traced a path to the centre of the clockface, and I watched as she pushed the minute hand anticlockwise.

Round and round it went, slowly at first, then faster, and when it seemed to be whirling I looked away and watched Violetta in the mirror on the opposite wall.

I will never forget Violetta, a cut glass Italian girl who wore the face of love.

For days she drifted in and out of this state, sometimes speaking in a high, clear voice, telling her novices of their faults, telling Jesus of her love for him, describing her Little Way, singing simple, childish hymns, speaking of Violetta, a beautiful Italian angel, laughing with her sisters at the beach, describing scenes of rape and seduction and murder.

I wish, I wish I could get a letter from Violetta, a Violetta-letta on violet-scented paper.

She thinks she has a right to take Violetta from me, but I will outwit and outfox her, you can be sure of that.