Antonietta Chironi
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Antonietta Chironi

Antonietta Chironi (b. 1939, Nuoro–d. 1996, Nuoro) was a talented opera singer and extraordinary interpreter of traditional Sardinian songs.

After earning her diploma at the Cagliari Conservatory in 1962, she decided to settle in her hometown, devoting herself to music, teaching singing and directing the Scuola Civica di Musica, which made up for the city’s lack of a conservatory or a branch of one.

Thanks to her formidable organisational skills, she became one of the greatest culture promoters of her time.

She founded and was the first president of the Ente Musicale of Nuoro.

She assisted Paolo Fresu with the organisation of jazz seminars in Nuoro, starting in 1989.

A soprano with a splendid voice and a repertoire that ranged from eighteenth-century chamber music to opera, she died prematurely at the age of just forty-eight.