Renata Scotto

Renata Scotto (born the February 24th 1934 in the ligurienne small town of Soaps close to Genoa) is an Italian Soprano. Since the years 1950, she interpreted more than 45 different operas and appeared with the most acclaimed singers world.

Biography

When it is a child, it sings with the church of its birthplace in a chorus or in solo and has, already, a pretty voice. It is by seeing Tito Gobbi in Rigoletto of Verdi that she discovers her vocation of professional singer. To eleven years, she wants to pass a hearing and it is at the fifteen years age that she faces the public with the terrible air of Azucena of the Trouvère of Verdi “Stride the vampa” because she thinks of having a voice of contralto. At sixteen years, she studies the song in Milan with as professors, Ghirardini, Merlini. Alfredo Kraus puts in report/ratio Renata with its excellent professor of song, large the soprano Spanish Mercedes Llopar. Very quickly, it gums its defects, corrects its vocal technique while developing its stamp of soprano.

In 1952, the Christmas day before, at the 18 years age, it sings Violetta Traviata of Made green. At 19 years, it gains its first contest of song in Milan among a thousand of competitors. July 2nd, 1953, it makes its beginnings with the Nuovo Theater of Milan by interpreting the role of Violetta of Traviata . In 1953, after its hearing of the role disguised of Walter in Wally of Alfredo Catalani, Victor de Sabata says to him: forget the rest and the opera is played on December 7th of the same year with like partners Mario LED Monaco and Renata Tebaldi and obtains, during this evening fifteen recalls.

It is quickly committed in all the theaters of Italy but it is with the Festival of Edinburgh, on September 3rd, 1957, that it obtains glory by replacing Maria Callas refusing to take part in a fifth representation, not envisaged with the contract, in the role of Amina of the sonnambula of Bellini. For the young professional singer, this combination of circumstance was the chance of its life, it does not have which 24 years.

It becomes a large international high-speed motorboat and occurs on the largest scenes of the world. It Marie on June 2nd, 1960 with Mario Anselmi. The couple has two children: Laura born on May 31st, 1969 and Filippo, born on June 21st, 1972.

In 1960, in Chicago, it is acclaimed in the role of Mimi of Bohemian the of Puccini. In 1962, in Covent Garden then in Metropolitan on October 13rd, 1965 Operated when it is ovationnée in Cio-Cio-San in Mrs Butterfly of Puccini. She interprets there, during twenty years, the most various roles: Gilda in Rigolletto , Vitellia in the Clemence of Titus of Mozart or Lucia in Lucia de Lammermoor of Gaetano Donizetti without forgetting Violetta which she sings regularly. To the wire of its career, she adds other roles to her repertory like Leonora of the Trouvère , Desdémonde in Othello , Marguerite of Faust of Gounod, Normalized it Bellini, Manon Lescaut of Puccini without forgetting the verist roles of Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana of Mascagni. In the field of the disc, it records with, in particular, like partners Alfredo Kraus, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini and Ruggero Raimondi ( Traviata and Rigoletto ).

She makes her beginnings of director in 1986 with Mrs Butterfly . She, also, added new roles to her repertory like the Marshal's wife in the Knight in the Rose of Richard Strauss in 1992 and her first Kundry in Parsifal of Richard Wagner in 1995.

During more than forty years, it is known for its admirable executions of Violetta in Traviata , Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly , Mimi (and occasionally Musette ) in Bohemia of Puccini, Lucia de Lammermoor of Gaetano Donizetti, Macbeth of Verdi.

Called “Scottine” by its admirors, it can be enorgueillir to have carried out a remarkable professional path while interpreting more than 45 operas and 100 roles. It gains a multitude of price of which Emmy Award. She saw, today, in Westchester Country close to New York.

Source

Dictionary of the interpreters (Robert Laffont) (ISBN 2-221-08064-5).

External bonds

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