Maria Pellegrini (born 15 July 1943 in Pretoro, Italy) is a Canadian operatic soprano of Italian birth who has had an active international career since the 1960s.
In 1960 she entered The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in Toronto where she studied voice for the next four years with Ernesto Vinci [Wikidata].
[1] She returned several more times to the COC through the late 1980s, portraying such roles as Aida, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Nedda in I Pagliacci, and Violetta in La traviata among others.
[2] In 1965 Pellegrini won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, but never was engaged to sing a role at the Met.
[4] In 1977 Pellegrini portrayed Cio-Cio-San on a nationally broadcast production of Madama Butterfly for CBC Television with conductor Jean Deslauriers.