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ʻO Fiorenza Cossotto

Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hana mua ma 1957 (Milan, ʻo Matilda ma Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites). Mai ka makahiki 1959 ua hīmeni ʻo ia ma Covent Garden (mau ʻāpana o Azucena, Santuzza ma Rural Honor). Ua hiki mai ka lanakila nui i ka makahiki 1961 (La Scala, Leonora ma Donizetti's The Favorite). Ua hoʻomaka ka hana a ka mea mele ma ka Metropolitan Opera me ka lanakila (mai ka makahiki 1968, ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he Amneris).

ʻO Cossotto kekahi o nā mezzo-soprano nui loa o ke kenekulia 20. ʻO ka laulā o kona leo i hiki iā ia ke hoʻokani i nā ʻāpana soprano (e laʻa, Santuzza). Kaʻahele me La Scala ma Moscow (1964, 1974). Aia pū ka repertoire i nā ʻāpana o Rosina, Carmen, Eboli i ka opera Don Carlos, Renata ma Prokofiev's Fiery Angel.

Ma waena o nā hana o nā makahiki i hala iho nei, ʻo ia ka ʻāpana o Ulrika in Un ballo in maschera (1990, Vienna Opera). Hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻo Lady Macbeth (conductor Muti, EMI), Leonora ma Donizetti's The Favorite (conductor Boning, Decca).

E. Tsodokov, 1999