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Eva Tetrazzini (March 17, 1862 - October 27, 1938) was an Italian soprano opera singer and the older sister of Luisa Tetrazzini and Elvira Tetrazzini, both operatic sopranos as well.

Biography
Tetrazzini was born in Milan in 1862 and studied music in the musical college of Florence. In 1889, after performing in an opera conducted by Cleofonte Campanini, she married him and the couple went on to reside in New York.

After her wedding, Tettrazini continued her career, performing in several operas conducted by Campanini. She retired from opera in 1915 but continued to perform in concerts, especially in London, where she enjoyed particular appreciation, and taught in Milan starting in 1931.

After a brief illness, Tetrazzini died in 1938 at her villa in Salsomaggiore. In Rome, she and her sister Luisa are honoured by a street bearing the name of "Sorelle Tetrazzini."

Notable performances

 * 1882: Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust
 * 1885: the titular protagonist of Pierantonio Tasca's Bianca in 1885
 * 1886: Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda at the Opéra de Nice, directed by Campanini
 * 1888: Desdemona in the first American production of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello at the New York Academy of Music, with Italo Campanini and Sofia Scalchi, directed by Campanini
 * 1894: Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Teatro di San Carlo
 * 1901: Puccini's Tosca
 * 1901: Maddalena di Coigny in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chenier at the Teatro Regio n Parma
 * 1902: Giordano's Fedora at the Teatro Regio, directed by Campanini
 * 1905: Maddalena in Andrea Chenier at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris, with Amedeo Bassi and Antonio Pini-Corsi, directed by Campanini
 * 1910: Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Manhattan Center