Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/SotM/August2008

The singers of the month for August are the following role creators in operas by Ruggero Leoncavallo

• Fiorello Giraud, the first Canio in Pagliacci.
• Adelina Stehle, the first Nedda in Pagliacci (and the first Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff).
• Edoardo Garbin, the first Milio Dufresne in Zazà (and the first Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff. Garbin was married to Adelina Stehle.)
• Eugenia Burzio the first Delia Terzaghi in Goffredo Mameli and one of the first performers of Fleanna in Zingari.