Luisa Tetrazzini
Italian opera singer (1871-1940) · Italy · On the map · Musicians · Died at 68
Luisa Tetrazzini was an Italian coloratura soprano of great international fame. Tetrazzini "had a scintillating voice with a brilliant timbre and a range and agility well beyond the norm...". She enjoyed a highly successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s.
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Her voice lives on in recordings made from 1904-1920. She wrote a memoir, My Life of Song, in 1921 and a treatise, How to Sing, in 1923. After retirement, she taught voice in her homes in Milan and Rome until her death.
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