Luisa Tetrazzini
Born: 29th June 1871, Florence, Italy
Died: 28th April 1940, Milan, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Luisa Tetrazzini was an Italian dramatic coloratura soprano (soprano sfogato) 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. 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.
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