Angiolina Ortolani-Tiberini

Angiolina Ortolani-Tiberini (10 May 1834 – 31 December 1913) was an Italian soprano who sang many leading roles in European opera houses during a career spanning over twenty years.

[1] Ortolani-Tiberini was born Maria Angela Ortolani Valandris in the northern Italian city of Bergamo where her father owned an osteria.

She made her stage debut to great success in the title role of Donizetti's Parisina at the Teatro Riccardi in Bergamo on 23 August 1853.

In 1858, while appearing in the title role in Linda di Chamounix at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, she met and fell in love with the leading tenor Mario Tiberini.

However, she returned to Bergamo in 1884 to sing Rosina in The Barber of Seville, when the theatre's season had been compromised by the loss of their lead soprano.