Giuseppina Cobelli (1 August 1898 - 10 August 1948) was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano. She was born in Maderno on Lake Garda on 1 August 1898 and studied in Bologna and Hamburg. Her debut was as

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in Piacenza in 1924. She performed at

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from 1925 to 1942, and created the role of Silvana in

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'' in Rome in 1934. In ''Grove's Dictionary of Opera Singers'' she is described as "A beautiful woman with a highly individual voice and dramatic temperament". She only made two commercial recordings and has been described as "now virtually forgotten star of La Scala" and a "forgotten opera singer". She died in Barbarano, near

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, on 10 August 1948.

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