Adriana Guerrini [SEP] voice type
Adriana Guerrini
Adriana Guerrini (September 22, 1907 – April 24, 1970) was an Italian operatic soprano, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.
Guerrini initially studied with Elvira Cesaroli Salvatori but being dissatisfied, applied to Beniamino Gigli for advice and was directed to Roberto Giovannini, active at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia (Rome) but also at the famous "Scuola di arpe," directed by Isabella Rosati Caserini. After three years with Giovannini, she made her first operatic appearance in June 1935 at the Teatro Quattro
Rossini's Bartolo in "Il barbiere di Siviglia" under Alberto Erede, Erich Leinsdorf, and Silvio Varviso, Dulcamara in "L'elisir d'amore", "Don Pasquale", Fra Melitone in "La forza del destino", with Renata Tebaldi and Mario del Monaco, and a second with Adriana Guerrini, "Gianni Schicchi", Benoit/Alcindoro in La bohème at least three times, etc. He also recorded the role of Rodolfo in "La sonnambula", opposite Joan Sutherland in 1962. More serious roles he recorded