Marcella Pobbe (13 July 1921 - 17 June 2003) was an Italian operatic soprano who sang a wide range of roles in both the lyric and spinto repertory.[1]
Pobbe was born in Montegalda near Vicenza, where she studied with Elena Fava, and later entered the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, where she studied with Rinalda Pavoni. She also studied at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Giorgio Favaretto. She made her stage debut in Spoleto, as Gounod's Marguerite, in 1949, and the same year, first appeared at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where she was to appear regularly until 1973.
Pobbe went on performing until the late 1970s, and then became a music critic for Vicenza Gazzettino. In 2000, she published a series of interviews she had made with conductors. She died in Milan.
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↑ Enrico Stinchelli Le stelle della lirica: i grandi cantanti della storia dell'opera 2002- Page 85 "Marcella Pobbe (Montegalda, Vicenza 1921), attiva in molte opere del genere lirico e lirico-spinto, tra cui vanno almeno segnalate Faust, Otello e Adriana ."
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