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Antonietta Stella

Biography

Maria Antonietta Stella (15 March 1929 – 23 February 2022) was an Italian operatic soprano, and one of the most prominent Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s. She made her debut in Spoleto in 1950, as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, a year later at Rome Opera, as Leonora in La forza del destino, in 1954 at La Scala in Milan, as Desdemona in Otello, in 1955 at the Royal Opera House in London as Aida, and in 1956 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, in the same role.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

326 releases · 58 albums · active 1955–2023

  • Performance · 366
  • Other credits · 35

Studios: Teatro alla Scala, Milano · Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma · Teatro Verdi, Trieste · Carnegie Hall

Frequent collaborators

  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Various
  • Verdi
  • Puccini
  • Giuseppe di Stefano
  • Giordano
  • Franco Corelli
  • Donizetti

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