1837, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)
What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones(..)
2005, Burton D. Fisher, Mozarts Don Giovanni'', page 22
In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna Anna, the sentimental and spurned Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.