Muzio, Claudia

1889 - Born in Pavia on the 7th of February.

1910 - Muzio made her operatic début in the title-role of Massenet's Manon.

1913 - She made rapid progress in the opera-houses of Italy, leading to débuts at La Scala in Milan in Paris and in London at Covent Garden in 1914.

1916 - She was invited to the Met in New York in December and was so successful that she continued to appear there during six successive years.

1919 - She established a special relationship with the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where she first appeared in June.

1922 - She also appeared regularly in Chicago.

1929 - She married Renato Liberati, seventeen years her junior.

1934 - Her last and according to some critics her greatest role was in Rome as Cecilia in the opera of that name written for her by Licinio Refice.

1930 - She started to experience some health problems, but continued singing and recording.

1936 - On the 24th of May, after a short illness, she died in a Rome hotel of what was officially described as heart failure, aged 47. There was much speculation about other possible causes of death, including suicide.