Lucrezia Bori

Standing apart from other lyric sopranos of her day, Lucrezia Bori was a superb interpretive artist, adept at using the oboe-like timbre of her modest-sized voice to create interpretations of rare pathos. While not conventionally beautiful, she bewitched her audiences into believing her to be a creature of extraordinary allure. Her ability to disguise a somewhat ordinary figure with immaculately cut costumes is borne out by numerous photographs taken of her during her prime years. She survived the onset of nodes on her vocal cords, retiring and allowing a period of absolute si...