Word: cigna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newcomer was Gina Cigna, who has been singing roles at La Scala since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. The late great Respighi chose her to take the lead in his La Fiamma. Mme Cigna made her Metropolitan debut last month as Aïda. Her singing was so warm and rich, her dramatic sense so keen, that the audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes...
...plans, as anyone could desire. He had hired such singers as Poland's Gertrud Riinger, whose dramatic soprano made her a favorite in Berlin; Soprano Franca Somigli, who grew up in Manhattan as plain Marian Clarke, won fame four years ago in Europe and delighted Mussolini; Soprano Gina Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. Much was expected of Kerstin Thorborg, tall young Swede whose contralto won her first place at the Stockholm Royal Opera...