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Adelaide Borghi-Mamo
Adelaide Borghi-Mamo (9 August 1826 – 29 September 1901) was an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career from the 1840s through the 1880s. She was married to tenor Michele Mamo and their daughter, soprano Erminia Borghi-Mamo, also had a successful singing career.
Life and career.
Born in Bologna, Borghi-Mamo studied singing in Milan with Francesca Festa before making her professional opera debut in 1843 at the opera house in Urbino as Bianca in Saverio
Erminia Borghi-Mamo
Erminia Borghi-Mamo (November 18, 1855 – July 29, 1941) was an Italian opera singer.
Early life.
Erminia Borghi-Mamo was born in Paris, the daughter of Michele Mamo and Adelaide Borghi-Mamo, both Italian opera singers. She was literally born into the theatre: Adelaide Borghi-Mamo finished a performance of Verdi's "Il Trovatore", then gave birth to Erminia hours later, in a room within the theatre of the Comédie-Italienne. She