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I've been a lover of opera for years, and recently realized that one of the places we will be going is Milan, which is where La Scala is, and I thought it would be awesome if I could see an Italian opera in La Scala, since I'm there for a few days. So my question is, is it something worth doing...

Giannina Arangi-Lombardi (1890-1951) began her career as a mezzo-soprano in the early 1920s. With growing awareness of her brilliant middle-upper vocal capabilities, she made an important transition to become a spinto in the mid 1920s and enjoyed great success as Gioconda, Santuzza, Elena in...

From YouTube channel of "dtshu" Giuseppina Cobelli (1898-1948) was the prima donna who, together with Giannina Arangi-Lombardi and Bianca Scacciati, ruled Milan's Teatro alla Scala in the late 1920s and the early 1930s. The dramatic soprano has been little known in the English-speaking world...