Virginia Ferni Germano

Virginia Ferni Germano was an Italian operatic soprano and violinist. Virginia Ferni debuted on the opera stage in 1876, in Charles Gounod's Faust, at Madrid's Teatro Reale. She was the first to play Bizet's Carmen in Italian, at Milan's La Scala in 1885. She created the title role of Alfredo Catalani's Edmea when it premiered in 1896, and of Catalani's Loreley, when it was first performed in 1890. Arturo Toscanini made his professional conducting debut in Italy at an 1886 performance of Edmea starring Virginia Ferni Germano. Her 1886 appearance as Mignon in Milan prompted a London newspaper correspondent to comment that "her appearance is, to say the least, hardly suited for portraying a very youthful gipsy girl," but to concede that "her matured artistic abilities and fine voice sustain the part in a manner highly acceptable to her auditors." After retiring from the stage she taught voice in Turin. Among her students were Alba Anzelotti, Bianca Lenzi, and Marisa Morel. Virginia Ferni Germano died in 1934, aged 84 years, in Turin.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Ferni_Germano
• https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Ferni_Germano
• Sängerlexicon
• http://www.esdf-opera.de/saengerliste/saenger_f/ferni-germano_virgi...

Virginia Ferni Germano is a cousin of Virginia Ferni Teja, Carolina Ferni, Teresina Ferni and Vicenzina Ferni. This is proofed by Leone Giraldoni's letter to his wife*s sister Virginia, where he tells news about Virginia's cousin Virginia.

• http://www.ipernity.com/doc/289583/44377124
• http://www.ipernity.com/doc/289583/44377122
• http://www.ipernity.com/doc/289583/44377130