Antonietta Stella [SEP] place of birth
Antonietta Stella
Antonietta Stella (March 15, 1929, Perugia, Italy as Maria Antonietta Stella) is an Italian operatic soprano, one of the finest Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini roles. 
Stella studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and made her debut in Spoleto, as Leonora in "Il trovatore", in 1950, and appeared at the Rome Opera in 1951, as Leonora in "La forza del destino". She quickly sang throughout
in "La forza del destino" took place at the Stoll Theatre in 1953. His American debut was at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1955, and his Metropolitan Opera debut as Radames in "Aida" came the following year when he (and Antonietta Stella) received a positive reaction from Howard Taubman in "The New York Times". Bergonzi continued to sing at the Met for 30 years, his last role being that of Rodolfo in Verdi's "Luisa Miller" in 1988.
He sang the role of