Alice Cucini [SEP] voice type
Alice Cucini
Alice Cucini (1870–1949) was an Italian contralto who had a prolific opera career in Europe and South America between 1891 and 1915. She was particularly associated with the role of Dalila in Camille Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila", which she sang in numerous houses internationally. Among the first generation of musicians to be recorded, her voice is preserved on some of the very first Zonophone records ever made (1900), some Pathé recordings from 1902, and some HMV recordings made in 1906 and 1910
by Leroux (which he created in Montecarlo the same year), with Claessens and De Luca. In 1908, also at Teatro de la Opera, he sang Andreas again, Siegmund and Thesee in the B.A. première of Massenet´s Ariane. In 1910, at the Teatro Colón, he sang Licinio in a revival of Spontini La Vestale with Esther Mazzoleni, Alice Cucini, Francesco María Bonini and Giulio Cirino. He was that year the first Loge in Das Rheingold with Didur, De Luca and Lina Pasini Vitale. Also sang Siegmund