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Renata Scotto

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Renata Scotto

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Italian soprano, opera director (1934–2023)

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Renata Scotto was an Italian soprano and opera singer. Her musical career included performances recognized in the Grammy Winners collection. She had two children.

Scotto’s recorded works include titles such as *More than a diva* and *Scotto*. Her music is categorized under tags including opera, Classical, and Italian.

She was born in 1934 and died on August 16, 2023.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1934
Works
2

Top works

  • More than a diva
  • Scotto

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
IT
Active from
1934-02-24
Active to
2023-08-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
20,252
Total plays
79,286

Tags

operaClassicalsopranoitalianr scotto

The Italian opera singer Renata Scotto (born February 24, 1934) is a soprano widely admired for both her musical and dramatic gifts. Since retiring from the stage as a singer in 2002, she has turned to directing opera as well as teaching at her own opera academy in Italy and New York. Her New York Academy is held in the month of June at the Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains. Ms. Scotto presents a public master class and hosts a final recital of her students. <a href="https://www.

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Key facts

Born
( 1934-02-24 ) 24 February 1934, Savona , Kingdom of Italy
Died
16 August 2023 (2023-08-16) (aged 89), Savona, Italy
Occupations
Operatic soprano Opera director Voice teacher
Organizations
La Scala Metropolitan Opera

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Encyclopedic overview

Renata Scotto (24 February 1934 – 16 August 2023) was an Italian soprano, opera director, and voice teacher. Recognised for her sense of style, her musicality, and as a remarkable singer-actress, Scotto is considered to have been one of the preeminent opera singers of her generation.

For more than 40 years, she performed in some 45 roles, first in Italy, then as a leading soprano of the Metropolitan Opera (Met). She is remembered especially for the title roles of Verdi's La traviata, performed for her stage debut in Milan in 1952, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly, which was her first role at the Met and her last there in 1987, but also for belcanto works such as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. She appeared in the first telecast from the Met in 1977, as Mimi in Puccini's La bohème, alongside Luciano Pavarotti and conducted by James Levine. She later expanded her repertoire by roles such as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, Elle in Poulenc's La voix humaine, and Madame Flora in Menotti's The Medium. As opera director she worked for the Met, the Arena di Verona, and other leading opera houses.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Renata Scotto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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