The legendary singer and actress Lia Origoni died at the age of 103 in La Maddalena .
An all-round artist, she has also been a stylist, educator, showgirl, and much more. In a life spent on the stage of theaters all over Europe until his retirement, in recent years, in his Sardinian home, where he continued to follow the events of the whole world with enthusiasm and an incessant hunger for knowledge.
"The thread that inextricably binds the years of my existence - she said when interviewed by L'Unione Sarda - is above all that of curiosity and the desire to live . I have a spirit that is never satiated , which pushes me to stay up at night to watch TV, even until four in the morning, programs and news: here, I think that this thirst for knowledge is really the essence of life ".
Born on October 20, 1919 in La Maddalena , by Pietro and Rosa Francesconi , she began her passion for music from the tenderest years of childhood, with repeated performances in front of the nuns of the San Vincenzo institute, where she studied up to 10 years. . " I started singing before speaking ," he would later explain. Then the first real audition in 1934 in Caprera , next to the tomb of Giuseppe Garibaldi. And then the competitions, the debut in Rome, and the long tours in Italy and abroad. The bond with Totò and the friendship, born after a quarrel, with Anna Magnani . Then the farewell to the scenes in 1964 .
"The decision to abruptly interrupt my activity was born from the awareness that for everyone it is time to retire - her words -: when I was younger I was struck by the treatment reserved for what for me was a great teacher, the tenor , who, already advanced in years, had to ask the public for permission to continue his performance after my masterful interpretation. It was an episode that marked me, and for which I decided that when it was my moment I would leave, with no regrets. The true greatness also lies in this ".
