OPERA SINGERS - LINA CAVALIERI  

Born in 1874 in Viterbo, Natalina known as Lina Cavalieri became an orphan at 15 years old. She began in vaudeville and sang in café-concerts before becoming an opera soprano in La Bohème then with Enrico Caruso at the Metropolitan Opera. In the 1900s, Lina Cavalieri achieved the status of a true international star and performed in the world's greatest opera houses. She doesn't have an extraordinary voice, but she knows it perfectly and makes the best use of it. Her stage presence, her instinctive and natural way of playing make her unforgettable. A symbol of feminine beauty, she arouses admiration. In 1913, she married for the second time the Italian tenor Lucien Muratore. She died with her fourth husband in the bombing of Florence on February 8, 1944.

• Design: Cyril DE LA PATELLIÈRE
• Line-engraving: Claude JUMELET
• Printing process: 3 colours steel-engraving
• Size of the stamp: 40,85 x 52 mm vertical
• Quantity of issue: 36 000 stamps
• Sheet of 6 stamps with illuminations