Italian mezzo-soprano (b Crescentino, Vercelli, 22 April 1935).. A pupil of Ettore Campogalliani, she made her début in 1957 at La Scala (as Sister Mathilde in the première of Dialogues des Carmélites), returning there almost continuously up to the 1972–3 season and appearing in La favorite, Les Huguenots, Il trovatore, Aida, Don Carlos, Barbiere, Cavalleria rusticana (Santuzza), Norma and other operas.

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