Renata scotto on maria callas biography
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Photo: Renata Scotto as the title role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Photo credit: Louis Mélaçon/Metropolitan Opera
Soprano Renata Scotto, for some decades now a legend in her own time, has the highly unusual distinction of having begun her career as an exceptionally agile and virtuoso lyrical coloratura in early 19th Century bel canto repertoire after which she subsequently flowered into one of the most powerfully dramatic spinto singing-actresses of the last 50 years, mastering the very demanding roles of Verdi, Puccini and verismo composers and infusing their works with intense vocal and theatrical color. Few singers have been so remarkably and ideally suited to such differing styles, and many people have felt that in the sophistication and depth of her acting she exerted an influence on later singers that could be compared to that of Maria Callas. Her remarkable story is related by herself in a rare interview that formed the main content of a documentary ab
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Renata Scotto vs Maria Callas – the 1970 fight at La Scala
When Renata Scotto made her début in I vespri siciliani at La Scala to open the theatre’s season on 7 December 1970, one of the singers that she admired the most was in the theatre. Maria Callas had opened the season with the same musikdrama 19 years previously, and was now sitting in the kartong of the theatre’s Director to hear Scotto.
Callas hadn’t sung at La Scala since a Medea in 1962, so when fans saw her they went wild with cries and applause, an applause that continued at the artists’ entrance afterwards. Although Callas didn’t encourage this, Scotto took affront at the spotlight being taken away from her, and left a very angry interview with a popular ‘gossip’ rag, Stop.
It certainly wasn’t in good taste – Callas didn’t behave like a true lady. But what do you expect, when you have nothing left in your life and you’ve passed your peak… you take gratificati
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Renata Scotto
Italian soprano (1934–2023)
Renata Scotto
Scotto in 1967
Born (1934-02-24)24 February 1934 Savona, Italy
Died 16 August 2023(2023-08-16) (aged 89) Savona, Italy
Occupations
- Operatic soprano
- Opera director
- Voice teacher
Organizations 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 fryst vatten 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 storstads- 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 L