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Maria Caniglia (5 May 1905 – 16 April 1979) was one of the leading Italian of the 1930s and 1940s.


Life and career
Caniglia was born in Naples and studied at the Music Conservatories of Naples with Agostino Roche. She made her professional debut in as Chrysothemis in Elektra in 1930. The same year she sang Magda in Respighi's La campana sommersa in Geneva and Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin in Rome and made her debut at in Milan as Maria in Pizzetti's Lo straniero. She sang regularly at La Scala until 1951 in the leading dramatic soprano roles in opera, such as Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, , Andrea Chénier, and Adriana Lecouvreur. She was particularly successful in roles from the latter school.

On the international scene, Caniglia appeared in venues such as the , Covent Garden, and the Teatro Colón. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on 21 November 1938 as Desdemona in .

Caniglia participated in the exhumation of a few long-forgotten operas such as Donizetti's and 's Oberto. She also participated in the creation of many contemporary works: Manuela in 's La notte di Zoraima, Milan, 1931, Rosanna in 's Cyrano di Bergerac, Rome, 1936, and the title role of Respighi's Lucrezia, Rome, 1937.

Caniglia regularly worked with the greatest conductors and singers, and left recordings of some of her great roles, notably Un ballo in maschera, and Aida (conducted by ), Andrea Chénier and Tosca (conducted by Oliviero De Fabritiis), all opposite tenor ; La forza del destino (cond. ), Don Carlo, Fedora and Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini, this last conducted by Antonio Guarnieri.

Caniglia was married in 1939 to Italian composer (1907–1975), who was also music director of the , the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and the Chicago Lyric Opera. She died in Rome, aged 73.

  • Alain Pâris, Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interpretation musicale au XX siècle (2 vols), Éditions Robert Laffont (Bouquins, Paris 1982, 4th ed. 1995, 5th ed 2004).
  • D. Hamilton (ed.), The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to the World of Opera (Simon and Schuster, New York 1987).
  • Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), Guide de l'opéra, Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995).
  • Maria Caniglia biography – Detailed information on her life and career on Operaclick.
  • 'Caniglia, Maria' in Rosenthal, H. and Warrack, J., 1979, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, p. 80
  • MetOpera database, accessed 10 December 2007

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