ACTOR

Maria Cebotari

1910 - 1949

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Maria Cebotari (original name: Ciubotaru, 10 February 1910 – 9 June 1949) was a Bessarabian-Romanian lyric coloratura soprano. She was widely known as a singer by the mid 1930s and noted in particular for her wide range of repertoire. Beniamino Gigli stated that Cebotari was one of the greatest female voices he had ever heard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Cebotari has received more than 73,822 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Maria Cebotari is the 1,555th most popular actor (down from 1,420th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Moldova (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Moldovan Actor.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

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  • 1.93

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Maria Cebotari ranks 1,555 out of 13,578. Before her are Ned Beatty, Melissa Leo, Anthony Steffen, Samantha Fox, Andrew Lincoln, and Van Heflin. After her are Melvyn Douglas, Mercedes McCambridge, Hugh Fraser, Werner Krauss, Barry Nelson, and Maïwenn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Maria Cebotari ranks 103. Before her are Yusof Ishak, Julien Gracq, Enrique Guaita, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Ngô Đình Nhu, and Nouhak Phoumsavanh. After her are Heinz Hoffmann, Dorothea Tanning, Sylvia Sidney, Rudolf Kempe, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, and Félix Candela. Among people deceased in 1949, Maria Cebotari ranks 59. Before her are Walter Buch, Mariano Fortuny, Wilhelm Adam, Jacques Copeau, Otto Wächter, and Ginette Neveu. After her are Vladimir Nazor, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Alejandro Lerroux, Félix d'Herelle, and Wakatsuki Reijirō.

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In Moldova

Among people born in Moldova, Maria Cebotari ranks 19 out of 107. Before her are Vladimir Purishkevich (1870), Iona Yakir (1896), Meir Dizengoff (1861), Petru Lucinschi (1940), Eugenio Coșeriu (1921), and Ion Druță (1928). After her are Alexey Shchusev (1873), Lev Berg (1876), Nikolay Zelinsky (1861), Boris Kolker (1939), Jerzy Neyman (1894), and Grigory Kotovsky (1881).

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Among ACTORS In Moldova

Among actors born in Moldova, Maria Cebotari ranks 1. After her are Svetlana Toma (1947).

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Television and Movie Roles

Odessa in Flames
Maria Teodorescu
The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.
Jan 1o 19426 / 10
The Dream of Butterfly
Rosi Belloni
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
Jan 10o 19395 / 10
Mother Song
Fiamma Vanni (his wife)
A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in their on-stage behavior. Director Carmine Gallone was something of an expert in the field of filmed opera, as witness his Tosca, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore.
Dec 21o 19375 / 10