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What others say about Zinka: Arturo Toscanini: “Our Verdi would have loved this voice.…I have rarely heard such a soprano for Verdi.…If I would conduct again the complete Rigoletto, she would be my Gilda.” Rosa Ponselle: “I will say emphatically that her Leonora in Trovatore, among other roles she sang splendidly, was the peer of any soprano's in my experience. (Yes, my own included.) .…Milanov's was an amazingly beautiful voice.…In the end, she earned a place in operatic history and it was an Olympian one.” Maria Callas: “I was afraid she could see straight through me. If you have any false part, as an artist or a person, she will see it. She cannot be fooled. She was gracious, but still I was quite intimidated.” Giulietta Simionato: “…I positively aver that if she had performed with regularity in Italy, she would have been adored by this most discerning and fanatical of publics.…In her presence, certain other sopranos would not have been ranked supreme in the Italian thea
