Luisa Tetrazzini (1871～1940),意大利花腔女高音歌唱家，1871年 6月29日生于佛罗伦萨,1940年4月28日卒于米兰。\r \r Luisa Tetrazzini被誉为意大利佛罗伦萨“夜莺”，高音c以上头声极为出色，有著名的高音e。\r \r 在佛罗伦萨音乐学院从其胞姐埃娃和切凯里尼学习声乐。1890年在该市的帕格利亚诺剧院首次登台，扮演《非洲女郎》中的伊内兹。继在意大利一些剧院演出后，到国外献艺，其中到过圣彼得堡、马德里、墨西哥和布宜诺斯艾利斯，曾被誉为阿根廷第一女高音。1907和1908年，她先后在伦敦科文特加登和纽约曼哈顿歌剧院扮演《茶花女》中的薇奥莱塔，获得成功。她所擅长的角色还有露契亚、吉尔达、罗西娜、阿米娜等。第一次世界大战期间曾在意大利多次义演，战后也多次举行音乐会。虽然她的低音略嫌苍白稚气，但是她的中声区和高声区却格外优美饱满,高音C以上的音尤为出众。她所演唱的华彩段和跳音，灵活流畅，造诣极高。是当时最卓越的花腔女高音之一。晚年执教于米兰。逝世时一贫如洗，由国家出资将她安葬。\r Luisa Tetrazzini以演出《茶花女》中的薇奥丽塔和《弄臣》中的吉儿达等角色最受称道。\r \r Tetrazzini was born in Florence, the daughter of a military tailor. Reportedly, she began singing at the age of three. Her first voice teacher was her elder sister, Eva Tetrazzini (1862–1938), who also was a successful singer. Tetrazzini later studied at the Istituto Musicale in Florence. According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (second edition, 1980), she made her operatic debut in Florence in 1890. The role was Inez in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, taken when the scheduled soprano canceled on short notice. The first part of her career was spent mainly in the Italian provincial theaters and touring in Russia (she performed to considerable acclaim in Saint Petersburg), Spain and South America. Her 1890s' repertory consisted primarily of lyric-coloratura parts such as Violetta, Philine, Oscar, Gilda and Lucia. Tetrazzini made her American debut in San Francisco in 1905. The Metropolitan Opera's general manager, Heinrich Conried, took an option on her services at that time but unaccountably failed to engage her. After great success, she went on to New York where she was a sensation, eventually working under contract to Oscar Hammerstein.\r After some legal difficulties in New York that blocked her from performing, she held a press conference and declared, "I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing there in the streets, for I know the streets of San Francisco are free." This line became famous. She won her legal case, and her agent announced she would sing in the streets of San Francisco. On a crystal clear Christmas Eve in 1910, at the corner of Market and Kearney near Lotta's Fountain, Tetrazzini climbed a stage platform in a sparkling white gown, surrounded by a throng of an estimated two to three-hundred thousand San Franciscans, and serenaded the city she loved.\r