High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentina Bartolomasi (1889-1932) was an Italian soprano who had a major opera career from 1910 through 1927. Particularly successful in the dramatic soprano repertoire, she was Italy's leading Wagnerian soprano of her day. She notably appears on the first complete recordings made of Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier (as Maddalena de Coigny), Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (in the title role), and Giuseppe Verdi's Aida (in the title role). Bartolomasi was born in Modena and studied singing under her father, Bernardo Bartolomasi, a well known voice teacher. She made her professional opera debut in 1910. Early on in her career she had major successes at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Comunale Florence, and the Teatro Scribe in Turin.