Annunciata Garrotto

Annunciata Garrotto, also known by her married name Annunciata Power, (5 September 1907 – 26 October 1998) was an American soprano who had an active international career in operas from the early 1930s into the 1950s. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, she studied music at the University of Nebraska Omaha before pursuing further studies in Milan with soprano Lina de Benedetto and in New York City with Estelle Liebling. After making her opera debut in Italy, she toured Europe and Asia with the company of the Teatro di San Carlo in the early 1930s. Also performing in this tour was the tenor Laurence Power who she later married in 1935. The couple would work together frequently as romantic leads in operas during their performance careers.

From 1933-1935 Garrotto was a member of the touring arm of the Chicago Opera Company with whom she most often was heard at the New York Hippodrome. She continued to perform at that theatre frequently throughout the remainder of the 1930s as a member of Alfredo Salmaggi's Hippodrome Opera Company. She also was a leading soprano with other American companies during the 1930s and 1940s; most often working out of the cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. She retired in 1954 and moved to a farm in Southern Australia with her husband and their two children. After her husband's death in 1963 she moved back to Omaha where she lived until her death in 1998 at the age of 91.