Giulietta simionato biography

          Giulietta Simionato was....

          Giulietta Simionato

          Italian opera singer

          Giulietta Simionato (born Giulia Simionato; Forlì, Romagna, 12 May 1910 – Rome, 5 May 2010) was an Italian mezzo-soprano.

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        2. Giulietta Simionato was an Italian mezzo-soprano.
        3. Giulietta Simionato was.
        4. Italian mezzo-soprano.
        5. Giulietta Simionato, who has died aged 99, was one of the greatest Italian opera singers of her generation.

          6. Her career spanned the period from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966.

          Life

          As a girl she studied in a boarding school with nuns who sensed her musical qualities and invited her to study singing, which she did against the opposition of the family, especially her mother. After the latter's death, Giulietta studied first in Rovigo, then in Padua.

          Her singing debut was in the 1927 musical comedy Nina, Don't Be Stupid (Nina, non far la stupida) with music by Giovanni Capodivacca [it] (Gian Capo) and lyrics by Arturo Rossato [it]. The following year she made her operatic debut at Montagnana.

          In 1933 she won the first "bel canto competition" in Florence against 385 competitors and got an audition at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. The result was positive, but the artistic direc