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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.
Renata Scotto, a soprano of uncommon intensity who became a successful director after her singing career, died Wednesday in her hometown of Savona, Italy. Scotto's New York-based manager, Robert ...
The soprano Renata Scotto made many recordings, some of complete operas, others of collections of arias. Some of her performances can be seen on video, recorded live, especially in Metropolitan Opera broadcasts.
La straniera (The Foreign Woman) is an opera in two acts with music by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on the novel L'Étrangère (2 vols, 1825) by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt, although writer Herbert Weinstock also adds that it is "more likely [based on] a dramatization of [that novel] in Italian by Giovan Carlo, barone di Cosenza" since he ...
The program began in 1977 and was telecast live for its first few seasons. The first telecast, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, featured Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo and Renata Scotto as Mimì, with James Levine conducting (all three were interviewed during intermission), and Tony Randall as the host.
Famous Adrianas of the past 75 years have included Claudia Muzio, Clara Petrella, Magda Olivero, [9] Renata Tebaldi, Carla Gavazzi, Leyla Gencer, Montserrat Caballé, Raina Kabaivanska, Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, and Joan Sutherland. Angela Gheorghiu tackled the role at the Royal Opera, London, in 2010 with Jonas Kaufmann as Maurizio. [10]
1965 - Puccini - Turandot - Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Renata Scotto, Bonaldo Giaiotti - Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli - EMI 1967 - Verdi - Aida - Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Grace Bumbry, Mario Sereni, Bonaldo Giaiotti - Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Zubin Mehta - EMI
Included in his discography is a recording of Norma, with Renata Scotto (1979). Giacomini's prizes and honours count the title Kammersänger of the Staatsoper in Wien, the Gold Viotti, the Giovanni Zenatello Prize, the C.A. Capelli Prize, the Gold Mascagni and the Giovanni Martinelli Prize. He was also Commendatore of the Ordine di San Gregorio ...