SINGER

Lisa Della Casa

1919 - 2012

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Lisa Della Casa (2 February 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lisa Della Casa is the 714th most popular singer (down from 636th in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 269th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lisa Della Casa ranks 714 out of 4,381. Before her are Frankie Valli, Nino Ferrer, Percy Sledge, Cassie Ventura, Fyodor Stravinsky, and Dave Matthews. After her are Takeshi Kaneshiro, Bobby Kimball, Chuck Billy, Lee Hazlewood, Kevin Federline, and Pink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Lisa Della Casa ranks 145. Before her are Galina Ustvolskaya, Tamara Toumanova, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, James H. Wilkinson, Briek Schotte, and Paul de Man. After her are Anne Buydens, Salomon Morel, Robert Stack, Paavo Aaltonen, Mariano Martín, and Werner Goldberg. Among people deceased in 2012, Lisa Della Casa ranks 172. Before her are Josef Škvorecký, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Manuel Fraga, Shulamith Firestone, Fiorenzo Magni, and Angelo Dundee. After her are Russell Means, Blagoje Adžić, Vitaly Vorotnikov, Moshe Sanbar, Dom Mintoff, and Kaneto Shindo.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Lisa Della Casa ranks 314 out of 1,015. Before her are Adolf Wölfli (1864), Felix Manz (1498), Rodolphe Lindt (1855), Christoph Blocher (1940), Adrian Frutiger (1928), and Henry, Duke of Parma (1873). After her are Gottfried von Einem (1918), Liselotte Pulver (1929), Pierre Tirard (1827), Maurice Bavaud (1916), Arthur Cravan (1887), and Marc Surer (1951).

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Among SINGERS In Switzerland

Among singers born in Switzerland, Lisa Della Casa ranks 2. Before her are Lys Assia (1924). After her are Andreas Vollenweider (1953), Anita Traversi (1937), Patrick Juvet (1950), Henri Dès (1940), Paola del Medico (1950), Salvatore Licitra (1968), Michael von der Heide (1971), Yves Larock (1977), Paolo Meneguzzi (1976), and Luca Hänni (1994).

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