Claudia Pinza Bozzolla

Claudia Pinza Bozzolla (July 27, 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – August 3, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an Argentine-American operatic soprano, vocal coach, and voice teacher of Italian origin. As a singer she performed in operas throughout Italy and the United States, including appearances at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, and the San Francisco Opera.

She taught voice for several decades at Duquesne University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carlow University, and served on the board and vocal coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Opera. Several of her pupils have had successful performance careers of their own, including Metropolitan Opera singers Vivica Genaux and Andrey Nemzer, and Andrew Kurtz, founder of the Center City Opera Theater. She also hosted a weekly radio program "Opera with Claudia" on WDUQ-FM radio. The only existing recording of the singer is from a November 1951 broadcast of The Bell Telephone Hour in which she performed the final Act of Gounod's Faust.

Claudia Tullia Pinza was born in Buenos Aires while her father, famous Italian opera singer Ezio Pinza, was under contract at the Teatro Colón. Her mother was Augusta Cassinelli and her godparents were soprano Claudia Muzio and conductor Tullio Serafin. She spent most of her childhood growing up in the city of Bologna where she studied voice at the Bologna Conservatory. She later was a voice pupil of Antonino Votto in Milan. She made her professional opera debut at La Scala as a Nymph in Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo when she was just 18 years old. She later performed the role of Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the opera house, and appeared in opera houses in the Italian provinces during World War II.