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Adriana Martino
Martino with Sesto Bruscantini (Radiocorriere magazine, 1972)
Born26 July 1931 (1931-07-26) (age 92)
Caserta, Italy
OccupationSoprano

Adriana Martino (born 26 July 1931) is an Italian operatic soprano, folk singer and stage director.

Life and career[edit]

The elder sister of singer Miranda Martino, Adriana Martino studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and made her professional debut as a soprano in 1956, playing Musetta in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème.[1]

Alongside her operatic activity, in which, among other things, she worked several times with Herbert von Karajan,[1][2] she also recorded folk and traditional songs, and in the 1970s she came to prominence as a performer of political songs.[1]

Married to composer Benedetto Ghiglia, with whom she founded the theater company "Teatro-Canzone", she was also active as a stage director, best known for the feminist play Nostro Fratello Donna ("Our Brother a Woman").[1] She also served as singing teacher at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.[2]

Partial discography[edit]

Albums
  • 1958 - Antologia della canzone napoletana (Columbia)
  • 1971 - Donna... Amore... Dolore (with Miranda Martino) (RCA Italiana)
  • 1972 - Cosa posso io dirti (Fonit Cetra)
  • 1974 - Conosci il paese dove fioriscono i cannoni? (CBS)
  • 1976 - Adriana Martino canta Brecht e Eisler (I Dischi dello Zodiaco)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Ernesto Bassignano (1990). "Martino, Adriana". Dizionario della canzone italiana, cured by Gino Castaldo. Curcio Editore. pp. 1013-4.
  2. ^ a b "Adriana Martino "Ho sempre voluto essere una donna indipendente"". Il Sussidiario (in Italian). 21 June 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2024.

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