1924 MILAN Gilda Della RIZZA SIGNED FONOTIPIA Andrea Chenier La Mamma Morta/78

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Famous Italian Soprano Gilda Della Rizza in one of her Fonotipia Milan recordings

SIGNED IN DEAD WAX and under the label

master xxPh 5393-2 D30 AN

ITA: Milano

1924.02.13 Wed

ANDREA CHÉNIER (Umberto Giordano / Luigi Illica)

III/d: La mamma morta — Racconto

La mamma morta

Gilda Dalla Rizza (soprano).

…?… (MD). —(orchestra).

Fonotipia XX 74914, F 5563 D30 AN

Fonotipia XX 74914, N 6524

master xxPh 5437 D30 AN

ITA: Milano

1924.02.25 Mon

MEFISTOFELE (M + W: Arrigo Boïto)

III/1a: L'altra notte in fondo al mare — Nenia

L'altra notte in fondo al mare

Gilda Dalla Rizza (soprano).

…?… (MD). —(orchestra).

Fonotipia XX 74915, F 5563

12" Fonotipia 78 rpm record:

Condition: EXCELLENT/ E-  7 mm scratch on Notte Quiet record

Gilda Dalla Rizza (October 12, 1892 – July 5, 1975) was an important Italian soprano. Born in Verona, she made her operatic debut in Bologna (the Teatro Verdi) in 1912, as Charlotte in Werther. Especially acclaimed in the verismo repertory, she was regarded as being Giacomo Puccini's favorite soprano, creating Magda in his La rondine (1917). Although he created the part of Minnie in La fanciulla del West for Emmy Destinn, when Puccini saw Dalla Rizza in the part, he said, "At last I have seen my true Fanciulla". She also gave the first European performances of his Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, at Rome in 1919. She also created roles in Pietro Mascagni's Il piccolo Marat and Riccardo Zandonai's Giulietta e Romeo. She was also an important interpreter of that composer's Francesca da Rimini.

Gilda dalla Rizza.She also appeared at the Teatro Colón (including Manon Lescaut opposite Aureliano Pertile) and Covent Garden, and was a favorite at Monte Carlo and the Teatro alla Scala. One of Dalla Rizza's unexpected successes at the latter theatre was in La traviata, under the bâton of Arturo Toscanini. The beautiful singing-actress bade Farewell to the stage in 1939, though she returned for a final Suor Angelica, at Vicenza in 1942. She was married to the tenor Tino Capuzzo, and, from 1939 to 1955, she taught at Venice's Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello. The great prima donna died at Milan's Casa Verdi, in 1975.

From 1913 to 1928, Dalla Rizza made several recordings for Columbia and Fonotipia of excerpts from various operas, including La traviata, Andrea Chénier, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Gianni Schicchi and Tosca. In 1931, for Columbia, she recorded a complete version of Fedora.

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