Cesira Ferrari

An Italian soprano in secondary roles who spent a decade at La Scala. She sang Garsenda in Francesca da Rimini at the Teatro Regio in Parma in 1920, and the first alms sister when Il trittico reached Bologna in 1921. At La Scala on 29 January 1922 she created Sister Genovieffa in the revised Suor Angelica and sang Nella in Gianni Schicchi the same night. There she created Maddalena in Respighi's Belfagor in 1923 and Dolly in Veretti's Il favorito del re in 1932, and she was singing at Parma again in 1936.