Mafalda Salvatini

Mafalda Salvatini (17 October 1886 – 13 June 1971) was an Italian opera singer who was primarily active in Germany during the first half of the 20th century.

She was orphaned at the age of 4 and thereafter was raised in boarding schools operated by the Sacred Heart in Portici and Paris.

Among the roles she sang there were Aida, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Marta in Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland, Myrtocle in d'Albert's Die toten Augen, Rachel in La Juive, Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Senta in The Flying Dutchman, Valentine, and the title roles in Georges Bizet's Carmen and Puccini's Tosca.

She also performed at opera houses in the Netherlands and Belgium, including La Monnaie in Brussels.

At the outbreak of World War II they moved to Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, where she died in 1971 at the age of 84.