Pantaleoni, Romilda

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Pantaleoni, Romilda

Pantaleoni, Romilda, Italian soprano, sister of Adriano Pantaleoni; b. Udine, 1847; d. Milan, May 20, 1917. She studied with Prati, Rossi, and Lamperti in Milan, making her debut at the Teatro Carcano in Milan in Foroni’s Margherita in 1868. She then sang in Turin and at La Scala in Milan, where she created the role of Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello in 1887 and Tigrana in Puccini’s Edgar in 1889.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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