Lina Cavalieri
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Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist.
Lina Cavalieri, c. 1900
Lina Cavalieri, Folies Bergère (a café-concert) c. 1890
Lina Cavalieri, as painted by Giovanni Boldini (c. 1901)
A scene in the silent drama A Woman of Impulse, with Lina Cavalieri, Raymond Bloomer (on one knee) and Robert Cain.
Monologist
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A monologist, or interchangeably monologuist, is a solo artist who recites or gives dramatic readings from a monologue, soliloquy, poetry, or work of literature, for the entertainment of an audience.
Lina Cavalieri
…Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri (25 December 1874 – 7 February 1944) was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist. Lina Cavalieri was born on Christmas Day at Viterbo, some 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Rome. She lost her parents at the age of fifteen and became…
An actor delivering a monologue