Licia Albanese (Soprano)
Born: 22nd July 1909, Torre Pelosa
Died: 15th August 2014
Nationality: Italian-born American
Albanese was born in Bari, and studied with Giuseppina Baldassarre-Tedeschi, one of the first great Puccini sopranos. She made her stage debut in 1934 in the part which would become her signature-role, Madam Butterfly, when she stepped in for an indisposed colleague part-way through a performance in Milan. Following several more successes in her own right throughout Italy, she emigrated to America in 1939, making her Metropolitan Opera debut as Butterfly a year later and becoming a US citizen in 1945.
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Licia Albanese (1909-2014)
The Italian-American soprano, widely regarded as the finest Madam Butterfly of the twentieth century, has died aged over 100.
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