Adriana Martino

Adriana Martino (born 26 July 1931) is an Italian operatic soprano, folk singer and stage director.

Life and career

The elder sister of singer Miranda Martino, Adriana Martino studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and made her professional debut as a soprano in 1956, playing Musetta in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème.

Alongside her operatic activity, in which, among other things, she worked several times with Herbert von Karajan, she also recorded folk and traditional songs, and in the 1970s she came to prominence as a performer of political songs.

Married to composer Benedetto Ghiglia, with whom she founded the theater company "Teatro-Canzone", she was also active as a stage director, best known for the feminist play Nostro Fratello Donna ("Our Brother a Woman"). She also served as singing teacher at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.

Partial discography

Albums

• 1958 - Antologia della canzone napoletana (Columbia)
• 1971 - Donna... Amore... Dolore (with Miranda Martino) (RCA Italiana)
• 1972 - Cosa posso io dirti (Fonit Cetra)
• 1974 - Conosci il paese dove fioriscono i cannoni? (CBS)
• 1976 - Adriana Martino canta Brecht e Eisler (I Dischi dello Zodiaco)

References

External links

• Adriana Martino at AllMusic
• Adriana Martino discography at Discogs
• Adriana Martino at IMDb 

1. Miranda Martino
2. Jolanda Meneguzzer
3. Così fan tutte discography
4. La Bohème (1965 film)
5. La bohème discography
6. Pelléas et Mélisande discography
7. Benedetto Ghiglia
8. Opera at the Edinburgh International Festival: history and repertoire, 1957–1966
9. Edson Álvarez
10. Decentraland
11. Diary of a Gigolo
12. Carlo Croce (soldier)
13. Un passo dal cielo
14. José Razzano
15. List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000
16. Milton Casco
17. Jacqueline Andere
18. List of stage names
19. Don't Play with Tigers
20. Blessed Madness