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Aprile Millo (born April 14, 1958) is an American operatic soprano who is known for her interpretations of the works of Giuseppe Verdi.
Aprile Millo made a cinderella like debut at the Metropolitan Opera on Dec. 3, 1984 replacing an ailing colleague and caused literally a sensation.
Passionately devoted to opera, she champions young artists, promotes the arts all over the world, and is keen to bring to light neglected masterpieces.

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I was inspired years ago reading the auto-biographies of Mary Garden, Lillian Nordica, Helen Traubel, Eileen Farrell, Grace Moore, and recently the biographies of Ponselle and Sutherland. The books of Lauri-Volpi on singers of his era and before; Celletti’s histories of great singers and my favorite, Marcia Davenport’s “Of Lena Geyer”.

Singers writing about their lives and thoughts.Then I was privvy to a fabulous series in the late Fifties penned by non-other than the ever insightful Maria Callas for the Italian periodical “OGGI”. In it she told about the day to day devotions and disciplines in the life of an opera singer, the rehearsals, the fatigue, the desire to please, the need to sing and the difficulty of a personal life.

All very arresting views behind the “sipario” and certainly wonderful to have as a glimpse of her thoughts by her own hand as she would leave no first person memoir.

Tebaldi also had a series replete with amazing insights into the very difficult life of a singer.

That was their version of a b

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Aprile Millo

American opera singer

Aprile Millo (born April 14, 1958) is an American operaticsoprano who is known for her interpretations of the works of Giuseppe Verdi. Although she has performed at many of the world's leading opera houses and with many orchestras and ensembles internationally, Millo has spent much of her career appearing in productions at the Metropolitan Opera.

Background and early career

Aprile Millo was born in New York City, the daughter of two opera singers, tenor Giovanni Millo (John Hamill) and soprano Margherita Girosi. Millo became interested in music at an early age and received her musical education primarily from her parents. After graduating from Hollywood High School in Los Angeles in 1976 she was invited to join the San Diego Opera Center as an apprentice, where she took part in the inaugural program and where as a member she sang the High Priestess in Aida. In several European trips she won several singing competitions including first prize in the Concorso Internazionale di Voci Verdiane in Busseto, Italy (1978), the Montserrat

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The beloved soprano has for over twenty five years been a beacon of style, authentic Verdi sound and idiomatic phrasing; the genuine article lirico-spinto soprano del agilità. Millo has been thrilling audiences as the leading soprano of the Italian Wing at the historic Metropolitan Opera. Her voice, ruby rich and velvet has been compared with some of the greatest voices who have ever lived, like legendary sopranos, Renata Tebaldi, Zinka Milanov, Rosa Ponselle and Claudia Muzio and Maria Caniglia. Aprile Millo made a Cinderella like debut at the Metropolitan Opera on Dec. 3, 1984 and literally caused a sensation. The papers next day heralded the birth of a “New Verdi Star!” and 27 years later Millo is still winning praise from objective critics and frenzied ovations from an adoring public. They hear in her that rare mix of power and lyricism that is the Voce Verdiane.She has sung over 180 performances of 15 different roles at her artistic home- the Metropolitan Opera. Outside New York, Mme. Millo has triumphed in the theaters