Margherita Carosio - Topic

Margherita Carosio was a leading Italian operatic coloratura soprano and actress, starring in Spanish films during the 1930s.
Her voice is preserved in many Parlophone and Ultraphon recordings made before World War II, as well as an HMV series made in London from the 1940s. She was still singing leading roles in her early sixties and was considered one of the leading bel canto sopranos of her day. She was born and died in Genoa.
Carosio is most often remembered today as the singer whose indisposition in January 1949 led to Maria Callas learning and singing the role of Elvira in Bellini's I puritani in five days while she was performing Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at Teatro La Fenice in Venice.