Amalia Paoli

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Amalia Paoli (1898 or earlier)

Amalia Paoli y Marcano (* 1861 in Ponce ; † August 30, 1942 in Ponce ) was a Puerto Rican opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Paoli made his debut in 1880 at the Teatro La Perla in Ponce in Emilio Arrieta's opera Marina . In the mid-1880s, she went to Madrid with her siblings, including her brother Antonio Paoli . There she was announced in 1890 at the Teatro Real as a partner of Julián Gayarre as Margherita in Arrigo Boitos Mefistofele . Gayarre's sudden death prevented the performance, and Paoli made his debut at the Teatro Real in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida only the following year .

Three years later she went to Italy, where she performed in Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence and Bologna, among others. Her repertoire included Margherita and Aida Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana , Valentina in Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer and Carmen in Georges Bizet's opera. At Milan's La Scala , she debuted al Leonora in Donizetti's La favorite . Her most important role, however, was that of Elsa in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin , which she also sang when she performed with her brother Antonio in Rome.

In 1922 she ended her active career as a singer and returned to Puerto Rico. There she founded the Academia Paoli in Santurce, where she taught herself and later her brother. In 1929 she worked again on a musical comedy at the Tapia Theater in San Juan. In the last years of her life she lived in financial distress on a pension from the Puerto Rican government.

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