Fiorenza Cossotto

Fiorenza Cossotto is an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano from Crescentino, Piedmont, who began her professional career in the 1950s and established an international career centred on opera performance. Her musical style, rooted in the Italian tradition, specialises in Verdi and bel canto roles and in French repertoire, and is characterised by a rich mezzo timbre and dramatic intensity associated with mid-20th-century revivals of 19th-century works.