# Flora Perini > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flora_Perini > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Flora_Perini.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Perini > Source revision: 1242330567 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Italian mezzo-soprano}} {{Infobox person | name = | image =Image:Flora Perini 2 cropped.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|11|20}} | birth_place =[Rome, Italy](/source/Rome%2C_Italy) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|9|23|1887|11|20}} | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | occupation = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Flora Perini''' (20 November 1887 – 23 September 1975) was an [Italian](/source/Italian_people) [opera](/source/opera)tic [mezzo-soprano](/source/mezzo-soprano) who had a prominent opera career in Europe, South America, and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. She sang a wide repertoire that encompassed works by [verismo](/source/verismo) composers like [Puccini](/source/Puccini) and [Mascagni](/source/Pietro_Mascagni), [bel canto](/source/bel_canto) composers like [Rossini](/source/Gioachino_Rossini) and [Bellini](/source/Vincenzo_Bellini), the [Italian grand operas](/source/Italian_opera) of [Verdi](/source/Giuseppe_Verdi), the [German operas](/source/Opera_in_German) of [Strauss](/source/Richard_Strauss) and [Wagner](/source/Richard_Wagner), and the [Russian opera](/source/Russian_opera)s of [Rimsky-Korsakov](/source/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov). She sang in numerous premieres throughout her career, including creating the role of the Princess in the original 1918 [Metropolitan Opera](/source/Metropolitan_Opera) premiere of [Puccini](/source/Puccini)'s ''[Suor Angelica](/source/Suor_Angelica)''.Macy, ''Grove Music Online'' ==Biography== thumb|Flora Perini in 1917 at the stage entrance to the Metropolitan Opera Perini was born in Rome on 20 November 1887. She studied at the [Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia](/source/Accademia_Nazionale_di_Santa_Cecilia) before making her professional opera début at [La Scala](/source/La_Scala) in 1908 as Anacoana in [Franchetti](/source/Franchetti)'s ''[Cristoforo Colombo](/source/Cristoforo_Colombo)''. Over the next several years she appeared in operas in [Nice](/source/Nice), [Venice](/source/Venice), [Trieste](/source/Trieste), [Turin](/source/Turin), [Bologna](/source/Bologna), [Madrid](/source/Madrid), [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona), [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg), [Rio de Janeiro](/source/Rio_de_Janeiro) and [Montevideo](/source/Montevideo). In 1910 she sang the role of Xenia in ''[Boris Godunov](/source/Boris_Godunov_(opera))'' opposite [Adamo Didur](/source/Adamo_Didur) in the title role at the [Teatro Colón](/source/Teatro_Col%C3%B3n) in [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires). She returned to that house numerous times over the next several years singing in such roles as Herodias in [Richard Strauss](/source/Richard_Strauss)' ''[Salome](/source/Salome_(opera))'' (1913) and Annina in ''[Der Rosenkavalier](/source/Der_Rosenkavalier)'' (1915). She also sang in the world premiere of [Carlos López Buchardo](/source/Carlos_L%C3%B3pez_Buchardo)'s ''[El sueño de Alma](/source/El_sue%C3%B1o_de_Alma)'' in 1914.Riemens, ''A concise biographical dictionary of singers'' In 1915, Perini made her American début at the [Metropolitan Opera](/source/Metropolitan_Opera) as Lola in [Mascagni](/source/Pietro_Mascagni)'s ''[Cavalleria rusticana](/source/Cavalleria_rusticana)'' with [Margarete Matzenauer](/source/Margarete_Matzenauer) as Santuzza, [Luca Botta](/source/Luca_Botta) as Turiddu, and [Gaetano Bavagnoli](/source/Gaetano_Bavagnoli) conducting. She sang in more than 300 performances at the Met over the next nine years portraying such roles as Amneris in ''[Aida](/source/Aida)'', Enrichetta in ''[I puritani](/source/I_puritani)'', Hedwige in ''[Guillaume Tell](/source/Guillaume_Tell)'', Maddalena in ''[Rigoletto](/source/Rigoletto)'', Mercédès in ''[Carmen](/source/Carmen)'', Nancy in ''[Martha](/source/Martha_(opera))'', Rossweisse in ''[Die Walküre](/source/Die_Walk%C3%BCre)'', the Spring Fairy in ''[The Snow Maiden](/source/The_Snow_Maiden)'', Suzuki in ''[Madama Butterfly](/source/Madama_Butterfly)'', and Teresa in ''[La Sonnambula](/source/La_Sonnambula)'' among other roles. Most notably she created the roles of Konchakovna in the American premiere of ''[Prince Igor](/source/Prince_Igor)'' (1915), Pepa in the world premiere of [Enrique Granados](/source/Enrique_Granados)'s ''[Goyescas](/source/Goyescas_(opera))'' (1916), Smaragdi in the American premiere of [Zandonai](/source/Zandonai)'s ''[Francesca da Rimini](/source/Francesca_da_Rimini_(Zandonai))'', the Princess in the world premiere of [Puccini](/source/Puccini)'s ''[Suor Angelica](/source/Suor_Angelica)'' (1918), Pantasilée in the American premiere of [Xavier Leroux](/source/Xavier_Leroux)'s ''[La reine Fiammette](/source/La_reine_Fiammette)'' (1919), "Light" in the world premiere of ''[L'oiseau bleu](/source/L'oiseau_bleu_(opera))'' (1919), and Larina in the American premiere of ''[Eugene Onegin](/source/Eugene_Onegin_(opera))'' (1920). Perini returned to the Teatro Colón as a guest artist in 1923 to perform the role of Debora in [Pizzetti](/source/Ildebrando_Pizzetti)'s ''[Debora e Jaele](/source/Debora_e_Jaele)'' and again in 1925 to sing the "Comandante" in Zandonai's ''[I cavalieri di Ekebù](/source/I_cavalieri_di_Ekeb%C3%B9)''. After nine seasons at the Met, Perini left to join the [Chicago Civic Opera](/source/Chicago_Civic_Opera) for a single season. She returned to Italy in 1925, where she sang principally at the [Teatro Costanzi](/source/Teatro_Costanzi) in Rome until her retirement. Her roles there included Maddalena in ''[Rigoletto](/source/Rigoletto)'', Laura in ''[La Gioconda](/source/La_Gioconda_(opera))'', Amneris in ''[Aida](/source/Aida)'', and Fricka in ''[Die Walküre](/source/Die_Walk%C3%BCre)'' among others. ==Recording== Perini can be heard singing the role of Maddalena in the famous 1917 [Victor](/source/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company) recording of the ''[Rigoletto](/source/Rigoletto)'' quartet with [Enrico Caruso](/source/Enrico_Caruso), [Amelita Galli-Curci](/source/Amelita_Galli-Curci) and [Giuseppe De Luca](/source/Giuseppe_De_Luca). This was apparently the only recording she ever made. {{Commons category}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==Sources== *Cori Ellison: "Flora Perini", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed November 17, 2008), [http://www.grovemusic.com (subscription access)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }} * [http://hosting.operissimo.com/triboni/exec?method=com.operissimo.artist.webDisplay&id=ffcyoieagxaaaaabemlp&xsl=webDisplay&searchStr=Flora%20Perini Biography of Flora Perini from Operissimo.com (In German)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084123/http://hosting.operissimo.com/triboni/exec?method=com.operissimo.artist.webDisplay&id=ffcyoieagxaaaaabemlp&xsl=webDisplay&searchStr=Flora%20Perini |date=2016-03-04 }} *{{cite book |title= A concise biographical dictionary of singers; from the beginning of recorded sound to the present |url= https://archive.org/details/concisebiographi00kuts |url-access= registration |last= Riemens |first= Leo |author-link = Leo Riemens |year= 1969 |publisher= [Chilton Book Co](/source/Chilton_Book_Co) }} ==External links== *[http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/17384/Perini_Flora_vocalist_mezzo-soprano Flora Perini] at the Discography of American Historical Recordings. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Perini, Flora}} Category:1887 births Category:1975 deaths Category:Italian operatic mezzo-sopranos Category:Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni Category:Singers from Rome Category:20th-century Italian women opera singers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Flora Perini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Perini) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Perini?action=history)). 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