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Margherita Rinaldi
Margherita Rinaldi (born 12 January 1935) is an Italian lyric soprano, primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s.
Rinaldi was born in Turin, Italy, and completed her music studies in Rovigo. She won a voice competition in Spoleto and made her debut there in 1958 in the title role of "Lucia di Lammermoor". Her debut at La Scala in Milan came the following year as Sinaide in Rossini's "Mosè in Egitto". Rinaldi sang at most of the major opera houses in Italy
Capuleti e i Montecchi and Linda di Chamounix, the RAI Le Prophète, a 1967 Rigoletto from Turin, and the 1978 Norma from Florence.
Margherita Rinaldi was also an excellent performer of sacred music: she performed at La Scala Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" or for RAI TV Mozart's "Vesperae solennes de confessore". She took part in the first recording of Rossini's "Messa di gloria" (1974).
Margherita Rinaldi retired from the stage in 1981. She lives outside Florence where she privately