Ida Quaiatti

During her career she would go on to sing in such works as Otello and Falstaff of Giuseppe Verdi; Lohengrin and Der fliegende Holländer of Richard Wagner; La Wally and Loreley of Alfredo Catalani; Lodoletta, Cavalleria rusticana and L'amico Fritz of Pietro Mascagni; Andrea Chénier and Fedora of Umberto Giordano,[4] Mefistofele of Arrigo Boito; and Manon of Jules Massenet.

[6] Quaiatti made her Metropolitan Opera debut, under the name "Ida Cajatti", as Musetta in a performance of Puccini's La bohème on November 19, 1915; conductor Gaetano Bavagnoli bowed with the company on the same evening.

[11] During World War I Quaiatti sang mainly in Italy, appearing in Turin, Genoa, Rome, Florence, and Naples, where she performed Tosca opposite the Cavaradossi of Beniamino Gigli at the Teatro San Carlo.

[4] In 1917, in Rome, she created the title role in the world premiere of Renzo Bianchi [ca]'s Gismonda, appearing alongside Edoardo Garbin and Domenico Viglione Borghese.

[13] Puccini, having heard her in a performance of La bohème, requested that she sing Giorgetta in the premiere of the revised Il tabarro at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in 1919;[14] she essayed the same role at Covent Garden in 1920.