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Fiorenza Cossotto

Ta fara fitowa a karon farko a cikin 1957 (Milan, a matsayin Matilda a cikin Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites). Tun 1959 ta rera waka a Covent Garden (sassan Azucena, Santuzza a Rural Honor). Babban nasara ya zo a cikin 1961 (La Scala, Leonora a cikin Donizetti's The Favorite). Wasan kwaikwayo na singer a Metropolitan Opera ya fara da nasara (tun 1968, ta fara halarta a karon a matsayin Amneris).

Cossotto yana daya daga cikin manyan mezzo-sopranos na tsakiyar karni na 20. Yawan muryarta ya ba ta damar yin wasan soprano na ban mamaki (misali, Santuzza). Ya yi tafiya tare da La Scala a Moscow (1964, 1974). Repertoire kuma ya haɗa da sassan Rosina, Carmen, Eboli a cikin opera Don Carlos, Renata a cikin Prokofiev's Fiery Angel.

Daga cikin wasan kwaikwayo na 'yan shekarun nan akwai bangaren Ulrika in Un ballo in maschera (1990, Vienna Opera). Rikodi sun haɗa da Lady Macbeth (shugaba Muti, EMI), Leonora a cikin Donizetti's The Favorite (shugaban Boning, Decca).

E. Tsodokov, 1999