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Albanese, Licia

LC control no.n 83155687
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Personal name headingAlbanese, Licia
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Variant(s)Albanese, Alicia
Albanese, Lucia
Albanese, Felicia
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19090723
Death date20140815
Place of birthBari (Italy)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityOpera
Profession or occupationSopranos (Singers)
Found inMassenet, J. Manon [SR] p1979: labels (Licia Albanese, soprano)
Kutsch/Riemens, 1987- (Albanese, Licia; debut in 1934 with name Alicia Albanese; b. July 22, 1913, Bari; soprano)
Metropolitan Opera double bill, 1949 [SR] p2003: label (Albanese) insert (Lucia Albanese; soprano, b. 1910, Bari, Italy; debuted in 1935 as Mimi and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 as Butterfly; best known through her many Met broadcasts)
Grove music online, Oct. 10, 2008 (Albanese, Licia; b. July 22, 1913, Bari; American soprano of Italian birth; made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1940)
New York times (online), viewed Aug. 18, 2014 (in obituary published Aug. 16: Licia Albanese; b. Felicia Albanese, July 23, 1909, Bari; made her debut in 1934 at the Teatro lirico in Milan; left Italy for New York in 1939; became a U.S. citizen in the 1940s; d. Friday [Aug. 15, 2014], Manhattan, aged 105; soprano whose veneration by audiences worldwide was copious even by the standards of operatic adulation)