Tecla Vigna

Tecla Vigna (died April 1927) was an Italian opera singer and educator based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tecla Vigna was born at Savigliano in northern Italy, and studied music at the Conservatory of Milan, where she earned her diploma in 1879.

[2] Vigna, a contralto, performed roles in opera in several Italy cities[3] before being recruited by pianist Albino Gorno to the faculty of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in 1882.

[4] Vigna wrote a text, 90 Daily Vocal Exercises (1894), published while she was teaching at the conservatory.

[10] In ill health, she closed her school and retired in 1925,[11][12] and moved back to Milan, where she died in 1927.