Giuseppina Cobelli Explained
| Giuseppina Cobelli |
| Birth Date: | 1 August 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Maderno, Italy |
| Death Place: | Salò, Italy |
| Occupation: | Opera singer (soprano) |
Giuseppina Cobelli (1 August 1898 - 10 August 1948) was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano.[1]
She was born in Maderno on Lake Garda on 1 August 1898 and studied in Bologna and Hamburg. Her debut was as La Gioconda in Piacenza in 1924. She performed at La Scala from 1925 to 1942, and created the role of Silvana in Ottorino Respighi's La fiamma in Rome in 1934.
In Grove's Dictionary of Opera Singers she is described as "A beautiful woman with a highly individual voice and dramatic temperament".
She only made two commercial recordings and has been described as "now virtually forgotten star of La Scala"[2] and a "forgotten opera singer".[3]
She died in Barbarano, near Salò, on 10 August 1948.
Further reading
- Book: Righetti, Maurizio . La donna del lago. Giuseppina Cobelli. Il soprano gardesano. Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana. 2011. 9788855900362 . Italian.
- Pleasants . Henry . Giuseppina Cobelli: A Personal Memoir . The Opera Quarterly . Winter 1985 . 3 . 4 . 48–55 . 10.1093/oq/3.4.48.
Notes and References
- Book: Rosenthal . Harold . Blyth . Alan . Cobelli, Giuseppina . https://books.google.com/books?id=N0zthpCZuAUC&q=giuseppina+cobelli&pg=PA91. 17 June 2018 . 91. The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Laura Williams Macy . 9780195337655 . 2008 . Oxford University Press.
- Web site: Giuseppina Cobelli (1898-1948): Now virtually forgotten Star Soprano of La Scala . Talk Classical . 18 February 2015 . 17 June 2018.
- Web site: Giuseppina Cobelli (Soprano) (Maderno, Lake Garda, Italia 1898 - Barbarano, nr Salò, Italia 1948) . Forgotten Opera Singers . 31 May 2015 . 17 June 2018.
