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I often do a double take when I see the names of Francesco Meli (a tenor singing today) and the incomparable tenor Francesco MeRli. Both Tenors and only one letter different.

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Maria Galvany and Marisa Galvany

You mean these are two different people?

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There's Ferruccio Tagliavini and Roberto Tagliavini.
And moving away from singers and onto characters, what about those similarly named bel canto heroines: Adina and Amina? Elivira is a character in I Puritani, Ernani and Don Giovanni. Rodolfo is the hero of both Luisa Miller and La Boheme. And let's not get into all those English queens, Elisabetta di Whatnot anyone?

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Olga Borodina (lyric mezzo), Tatiana Borodina (soprano).

And then the male form of this surname, Borodin, is, of course the composer of the opera Prince Igor.

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