LC control no. | n 83155687 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Albanese, Licia |
Variant(s) | Albanese, Alicia Albanese, Lucia Albanese, Felicia |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 19090723 |
Death date | 20140815 |
Place of birth | Bari (Italy) |
Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Opera |
Profession or occupation | Sopranos (Singers) |
Found in | Massenet, 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) |