Opera Singers & Vocalists Posters, Prints & Photographs, “P...-”
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Giuditta Pasta
Adelina Patti
Luciano Pavarotti
Roberta Peters

Ezio Pinza
Lily Pons
Rosa Ponselle

Giuditta Pasta
b. 10-26-1797; Saronno, Italy
d. 4-1-1865; Italy

Soprano Giuditta Pasta is considered among the greatest of opera singers. She created the title role in Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Amina in Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula and Norma.

Pasta was also a teacher.

Adelina Patti
b. 2-10-1843; Madrid, Spain
d. 9-27-1919; Wales; buried in Paris

Adelina Patti, one of the most celebrated opera sopranos of the 19th century, was the child of opera singers. She began singing professionally at age 16 and had a forty year career.

Singer Patti Lupone, star of the stage musical “Evita”, is a great-grand niece and namesake.

FYI ~ Opera soprano Sissieretta Jones was known as the “Black Patti” in reference to the Italian singer Adelina Patti.

Luciano Pavarotti
b. 10-12-1935; Modena, Italy
d. 9-6-2007; Modena (pancreatic cancer)

Pavarotti was awarded the 2001 Nansen Refuge Award for his fundraising for the UN High Commission for Refugees work.

• Luciano Pavrotti: The Best (Farewell Tour) Audio CD

Roberta Peters
b. 5-4-1930; Bronx, NY

Coloratura soprano Roberta Peters, a favorite of audiences and a great proponent of opera for the masses, had a 35-year association with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998.

Ezio Pinza
b. 5-18-1892; Rome, Italy
d. 5-9-1957; Connecticut

Bass opera singer Ezio Pinza sang on Broadway in the musical South Pacific after a long career on the opera stage.

• Ezio Pinza at Amazon

Lily Pons
b. 4-12-1898; Draguignan near Cannes, France
d. 2-13-1976; Dallas, TX (pancreatic cancer)

Lily Pons was an operatic soprano and actress whose active career was from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.

Rosa Ponselle
b. 1-22-1897; Meriden, Connecticut
d. 5-25-1981; Maryland

Singer Rosa Ponselle is considered on the greatest operatic sopranos of the past 100 years. Ponselle sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Lucia Popp, née Poppová
b. 11-12-1939; now Slovakia
d. 11-16-1993; Munich (brain cancer)

Operatic soprano Lucia Popp was also known as a lieder and recitalist singer.

Hermann Prey
b. 7-11-1929; Berlin, Germany
d. 7-22- 1998; Bavaria

Baritone Hermann Prey is most famous for lieder and light comedic roles in opera.

Leontyne Price
b. 2-10-1927; Laurel, Mississippi

Soprano Leontyne Price is especially known for her role in Verdi's Aida. She also sang the part of Bess in George Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess.