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The essential Bellinian soprano of her day, Giuditta Pasta created the title roles in Donizetti's Anna Bolena and in Bellini's La sonnambula and Norma -- three different roles that today are considered to be the domain of three entirely different kinds of voices.  After having heard her sing her Farewell Concert in London in 1850, Pauline Viardot said of of Pasta's voice: "It is like the Cenacolo of da Vinci at Milan...  a wreck of a picture, but the picture is the greatest picture in the world!"