Italian mezzo dies, at 98

Italian mezzo dies, at 98

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norman lebrecht

December 28, 2016

Miriam Pirazzini, one of Italy’s foremost mezzo-sopranos of the post-War decades, died on Christmas Day.

Born in 1918 she sang opposite Maria Callas in the 1958 Rome Norma that the diva abandoned at the end of Act 1.

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