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Who was Claudia Cattaneo, Claudio Monteverdiās wife?
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi, oil painting by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630; in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria.
Claudia Cattaneo was a singer whom Claudio Monteverdi married around 1599. The couple had three children together, one of whom died in infancy. Following a long illness, she passed away in 1607, a few months after the production of her husband's opera Orfeo.1