Claudia Muzio

Claudia Muzio (7 February 1889 – 24 May 1936) was an Italian operatic lyric soprano who enjoyed an international career during the early 20th century.

[3] Muzio made her operatic début in Arezzo (15 January 1910) in the title role of Massenet's Manon, and made progress in the opera houses of Italy, leading to débuts at La Scala in Milan in 1913 (as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello), in Paris (as Desdemona) and in London at Covent Garden (as Puccini's Manon Lescaut) in 1914[citation needed].

[3] She established a special relationship with audiences at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where she first appeared in June 1919 (in Catalani's Loreley)[citation needed].

[4][5] On 15 October 1932, she performed the title role of Tosca to inaugurate the new War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.

Her most popular role, however, was Violetta, in which she was considered unsurpassed throughout the Latin opera world (Italy, Spain, South America).

[citation needed] In her later years, Muzio experienced some financial anxiety after losing money through the extravagance of her manager and rumoured lover, and then in the stock market crash of 1929.