Irene Companeez was a singer represented in the Pristine catalogue through Antonino Votto’s stereo recording of Ponchielli’s La Gioconda with Maria Callas.

The performance places her in a large La Scala cast including Fiorenza Cossotto, Ivo Vinco, Piero Cappuccilli and Pier Miranda Ferraro.

Because wider public biographical detail is limited, this note is kept close to the recording evidence and its Italian opera context.

This page gives a securely identified catalogue artist a compact marker in the Callas-Ponchielli strand.