Bellincioni Gemma, *17 August 1864 Monza, †24 April 1950 Roccabelvedere (near Naples), Cesare Bellincioni’daughter (bass buffo), Italian singer (soprano). She studied in Milan and debuted in 1879 in Naples in the opera Il segreto della duchessa by G. Dell’Orefice. She took part in premieres of veristic operas, creating, among others, the roles of Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana by P. Mascagni (Rome 1890) and Fedora in U. Giordano’s Fedora (Milan, 1898, with E. Caruso as a partner); she sang a lead part at an Italian premiere of R. Strauss’s Salome. She visited many countries in Europe (also Poland – Warsaw) and South America. She was admired for her vocal qualities, and even more so for her dramatic talent. She married her teacher and repeated partner, tenor R. Stagno. In 1911, she resigned from the stage and devoted herself to teaching. After World War I, she appeared in films and was also a film director and producer. She published the textbook Scuola di canto (Paris 1912) and the memoirs Io e il palcoscenico… (Milan 1920). The few Bellincioni recordings on G&T and Pathe-Marconi records date from 1903–06.
Literature: B. Stagno-Bellincioni Roberto Stagno e Gemma Bellincioni intimi, Florence 1943.
