Gianna Galli
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Gianna Galli was an Italian operatic soprano who had an active international career from the 1950s through the 1970s. She specialized in the lyric soprano repertoire and was particularly known for her
Gianna Galli
Gianna Galli (photo with 1960 dedication)
La sonnambula
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La sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime writt
Gianna Galli
…television during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She notably performed the role of Lisa in Mario Lanfranchi's 1956 television film of Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula with Anna Moffo as Amina. On disc she recorded the role of Vivetta in Francesco Cilea's L'arlesiana with fellow singers Ferruccio Tagliavini, Pia…
The sleepwalker in act 2, sc. 2, (William de Leftwich Dodge, 1899)
![Ah! non credea mirarti / Sì presto estinto, o fiore [I did not believe you would fade so soon, oh flower] from act 2, scene 2, of La sonnambula appear](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Annoncredamirarti.JPG/500px-Annoncredamirarti.JPG)
Ah! non credea mirarti / Sì presto estinto, o fiore [I did not believe you would fade so soon, oh flower] from act 2, scene 2, of La sonnambula appears on Bellini's tomb in the Catania Cathedral, Sicily
Giuditta Pasta as Amina, May 1831 premiere
Tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini sang Elvino