Adriana Ferrarese del Bene was an Italian operatic soprano. She was one of the first performers of Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and the first performer of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
Performance of Mozart
William Mann reports Mozart had an extreme dislike for Ferrarese del Bene, for whom he first created the role of Fiordiligi in . Aware of her tendency to drop her chin and throw back her head while singing low and high notes respectively, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece aria ("") with continuous harmonic leaps to force her to bob her head "like a chicken". ==References==