After her death, her close friend Tina said: "You saw her die so many times on the stage... This time, she's really gone".
Arturo Toscanini named her "Angel voice".
She sang in the May 11, 1946 concert which re-opened La Scala Opera House, which had been bombed during WWII and then rebuilt. Arturo Toscanini was the conductor.
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6628 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
World-renowned Italian operatic soprano; many consider her the greatest Italian soprano of the twentieth century, and the only real rival to Maria Callas.