Anna Masetti Bassi
also Anna Masetti-Bassi, Anna Bassi Masetti
Birthplace: Faenza, Kingdom of Italy
An Italian mezzo-soprano who created the Abbess in the revised Suor Angelica at La Scala on 29 January 1922. She sang in concerts at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna in 1919, and in opera there from 1920 as a geisha in Iris, the mother in Guido Guerrini's Nemici, the Countess and Madelon in Andrea Chénier and Meg Page in Falstaff. For Columbia she recorded with the forces of La Scala under Lorenzo Molajoli, among them complete sets of Rigoletto, Manon Lescaut and an Andrea Chénier made in February 1931.
Creations
- La badessa — Suor Angelica (Milan, 1922)
Written from
- Tamino Autographs (n.d.) Masetti Bassi, Anna. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Discogs (n.d.) Anna Masetti Bassi. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Discography of American Historical Recordings (n.d.) Columbia (U.K.) matrix WBX979. Prendi! È un ricordo! / Carlo Galeffi ; Anna Masetti-Bassi. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Teatro Comunale di Bologna (n.d.) Archivio storico, 1914-1923. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Teatro del Giglio (2000) Puccini: Il trittico 2000-2001: Suor Angelica. Programme. Lucca: Teatro del Giglio and Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, p. 25. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Masetti-Bassi, Anna', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 1881.