Tatiana Menotti (24 June 1909 – 3 October 2001) was an Italian

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tic soprano. Born to Italian baritone Delfino Menotti and his Russian wife in Boston, Massachusetts, Menotti grew up in Trieste. In 1936, she sang the role of Despina in ''

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'' at

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. For 25 years, she was a principal artist at

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in Milan. She stopped her career in 1957 in order to support her husband, the Spanish tenor

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. She died in Barcelona following an

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.Sopranistin Tatiana Menotti (1909-2001)
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1909 births 2001 deaths Italian operatic sopranos 20th-century Italian women opera singers Musicians from Trieste {{italy-opera-singer-stub