Soprano Renata Scott has died at age 89, Scotto’s New York-based manager, Robert Lombardo, said she died Wednesday in her hometown of Savona, Italy
FILE - Tenor Placido Domingo, left, appears with soprano Renata Scotto in a backstage dressing room prior their opening night performance of Vincenzo Bellini's"Norma" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on Sept. 22, 1981. Scotto, a soprano of uncommon intensity who became a successful director after her singing career, died Wednesday in her hometown of Savona, Italy. She was 89.
Born Feb. 24, 1934, in Sovona, Scotto debuted there in 1952 as Violetta in Verdi's “La Traviata” and sang the role the next day at Milan's Teatro Nuovo. She starred alongside Luciano Pavarotti in the first “Live from the Met” telecast in 1977, of Puccini's La “Bohème.” As the end of her signing career approached, she turned to directing.
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