Luisa Tetrazzini | |
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Born | Florence, Kingdom of Italy | 29 June 1871
Died | 28 April 1940 Rome, Italy | (aged 68)
Occupation | Operatic soprano |
Years active | 1890—1934 |
Luisa Tetrazzini (29 June 1871 – 28 April 1940) 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...".[1] She enjoyed a highly successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s. 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.