Virginia Zeani (born Virginia Zehan, October 21, 1925, in Transylvania, Romania) was an operatic soprano whose career spanned the 1950s and 1960s. Her career was focused in Italy, where she sang in every major opera house and with tenors such as Beniamino Gigli, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Luciano Pavarotti, and Plácido Domingo. Like Leyla Gencer, she made few commercial recordings, but a number of her live performances exist as bootleg recordings.
Zeani was a particular favorite of Francis Poulenc, who chose her to sing the lead role in the world premiere of his Dialogues of the Carmelites.


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