It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

In 1907 Tetrazzini made a sensational debut as Violetta in La traviata at Covent Garden in London, where she was completely unknown, and from that point on she was an international operatic superstar, commanding the highest fees and selling out opera houses and concert halls wherever she performed.

Tetrazzini was short and grew stout as she aged ; but she could act effectively on stage, especially in lively or comic roles.

* Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing, 1909, by Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini, from Project Gutenberg

Opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini began with the song in her free public concert in the streets of San Francisco, California on Christmas Eve, 1910.

* April 28 – Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian opera singer ( b. 1871 )

Luisa Tetrazzini ( June 29, 1871 – April 28, 1940 ) was an Italian coloratura soprano of great international fame.

Indeed, Adelina Patti and Luisa Tetrazzini were the only Italian sopranos to enjoy star status in London and New York in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras, while such well-known compatriots and coevals of theirs as Gemma Bellincioni and Eugenia Burzio ( among several others ) failed to please Anglo-Saxon ears because, unlike Patti and Tetrazzini, they possessed unsteady, vibrato-laden voices — see Scott for evaluations of their respective techniques.

Tetrazzini was born in Florence, the daughter of a military tailor.

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.

Tetrazzini made her American debut in San Francisco in 1905.

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.

In 1908, Tetrazzini finally appeared in New York, not at the Metropolitan, but at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company, again as Violetta and again with great success.

At Boston, the Australian soprano Evelyn Scotney deputised for her in Lucia di Lammermoor, and the critics considered her " even better than Tetrazzini ", an indication of the esteem in which Tetrazzini's name was held.

Tetrazzini possessed an extraordinary vocal technique that enabled her to surmount any vocal challenge with almost insolent ease.

Tetrazzini had a bitter feud with Nellie Melba at Covent Garden but was generally well liked by other colleagues, including Enrico Caruso and Frieda Hempel.

After World War I, Tetrazzini largely abandoned the opera stage for the concert platform.

She would often say, " I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.

Luisa is thought to be eponymous of the popular American dish Turkey Tetrazzini, which allegedly originated in San Francisco, where she resided for years.

Additionally, there is a reference to Tetrazzini in the 1916 song " When Priscilla Tries to Reach High C ", written by Harry von Tilzer.

* Luisa Tetrazzini, 2 volumes: 1, 2 ; Nimbus.

* Luisa Tetrazzini: The Complete Zonophone ( 1904 ) and Victor Recordings ( 1911 – 20 ); Romophone.

* Tetrazzini at archive. org

* Luisa Tetrazzini singing along to a Caruso record of " M ' appari, Tutt ' Amor " when she retired in 1932.

In 374 the bishop of Milan, Auxentius, an Arian, died, and the Arians challenged the succession.

Soon after acquiring the undisputed possession of the Roman empire, Theodosius died at Milan in 395, and two years later ( April 4, 397 ) Ambrose also died.

Conquering all of the territory north of the Po, he forced the surrender of Milan and then drove Guy out of Pavia, where he was crowned King of Italy, but went no further before Guy died suddenly in late autumn, and fever incapacitated his troops.

That same year, Formosus died, leaving Lambert once again in power, and both he and Berengar killed any officials who had been put in place by Arnulf, as Ratold also fled from Milan to Bavaria.

* Milan Williams ( keyboards, trombone, rhythm guitar ) – born March 28, 1948, Okolona, Mississippi, died of cancer, July 9, 2006, Houston, Texas.

* Saint Eusebius ( bishop of Milan ) ( died 462 ), archbishop of Milan

In recognition of his merits, the emperor of Austria made him a knight of the Iron Crown and a councillor of state at Milan, where he died.

Shortly before his birth, his mother had to move from Milan to Pavia to escape the Plague ; her three other children died from the disease.

Bertoldo ( died 1417 ) managed to keep only Pitigliano, while his grandson Orso ( died July 5, 1479 ) was count of Nola and fought as condottiero under the Duke of Milan and the Republic of Venice.

In 1310, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII entered Italy, established the Visconti as vicars in Milan, and was crowned by Clement V's legates in Rome in 1312 before he died near Siena in 1313.

Picture-card packs are first mentioned by Martiano da Tortona probably between 1418 and 1425, since the painter he mentions, Michelino da Besozzo, returned to Milan in 1418, while Martiano himself died in 1425.

In 1447 Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, died without a male heir ; following the end of the Visconti line, the Ambrosian Republic was enacted.

Aldo Rossi died in a car accident in September 1997 in Milan.

In 1407 Estorre Visconti was proclaimed Lord of Monza and it minted its own coinage, the death of Giovanni Maria Visconti ( 1412 ) was acclaimed Duke of Milan, contending that the succession to Filippo Maria Visconti, but must then repair the Castle of Monza, where is besieged: hit in the leg by a stone thrown by a siege, died from the effects of the fracture in the first days of January 1413.

Francesco Sforza died without heirs in 1535, then opens the question of succession to the throne of the Duchy of Milan.

He died in Milan and was interred there in the Cimitero Monumentale.

He died in Milan and was interred there in the Cimitero Monumentale.

In the month of November of the same year, he died of his wounds at Milan.

His episcopate in Milan was cut short on 22 January 1922, when it was announced that Pope Benedict XV had died that day unexpectedly of pneumonia.

* Anselm II ( Archbishop of Milan ) ( died 896 )

* Anselm III ( Archbishop of Milan ) ( died 1093 )

* Anselm IV ( Archbishop of Milan ) ( died 1101 )