Review: Cecilia Bartoli’s sweet, tormented Love Songs in Rimini
Graham Spicer sees Cecilia Bartoli in concert with ‘Si dolce è ‘l tormento – Canzoni d’amore’, still weaving the Bartoli magic.
Renata Scotto
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In Memoriam 2023: artists who died this year… Singers, Dancers, Actors, Writers, Directors
In memoriam 2023: a personal list remembering of some of the artists who died in 2023.
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[Interview] Soprano Benedetta Torre – La Scala’s newest Susanna
Interview with soprano Benedetta Torre on the eve of the opening night at La Scala when she will sing Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
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Renata Scotto dies at 89
Renata Scotto died during the night at the age of 89. Savona, 24 February 1934 – 16 August 2023.
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[Interview] Talking with soprano Eleonora Buratto about Hoffmann, perfume and spumante
While Eleonora Buratto is singing in Les contes d’Hoffmann in Milan, I talked to her about the opera, her perfume, her charity work, and New Year’s fizz.
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Ferruccio Furlanetto awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal
After the opening Eugene Onegin, Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto (who made his debut in 1974) was presented with the San Francisco Opera Medal.
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[Interview] Luciano Pavarotti’s daughter talks about life with the King of the High Cs
Cristina Pavarotti talks about her opera-singer father before positioning his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next week,
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Pavarotti to have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
There will be a new Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Luciano Pavarotti, who died in 2007 at 71.
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Mirella Freni dies at 84
Mirella Freni, who would have been 85 on 27 February, has died at her home in Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. She had been fighting an illness for a long while and died surrounded by friends and family. Her coffin will be placed in Modena’s Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti on the morning…
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Conductor Nello Santi – who conducted 401 performances at The Met – has died at 88
The conductor Nello Santi has died at 88. He last worked at La Scala in November 2017, when he was 86, conducting Nabucco. He was born in 1931 in Adria in the Veneto region. He was the director of Zurich Opera from 1958 to 1969. In 1960, Santi conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker for Don Carlo…
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The play Quartet and the Giuseppe Verdi Rest Home, both in Milan
The Casa di Riposo per Musicisti (Rest Home for Musicians) in Milan is known simply as Casa Verdi (The Verdi Home) and, although Giuseppe Verdi never lived there, his body is buried there, together with that of his wife, Giuseppina Strepponi (the first Abigaille in the premiere of the composer’s Nabucco at La Scala in…
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Luciano Pavarotti, 10 years after his death, celebrated in exclusive photos from the La Scala archives
Luciano Pavarotti died ten years ago today, on 6 September 2007. Teatro alla Scala continually welcomed the great tenor to its stage for almost three decades, from 1965 until 1992. At the Milanese opera house he sang under the baton of Abbado, Prêtre, Kleiber, Patané, Gavazzeni, Karajan, Maazel and Muti. Pavarotti worked extensively with La Scala’s…
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Renata Scotto on her childhood, her musical beginnings and her debut in Traviata at 18
Renata Scotto has been made an honorary citizen of Tovo San Giacomo, a small town near the Ligurian coast, in the Province of Savona — just a few kilometres from where I happen to be writing this article. In my career, I have received many awards, but this is the best of them all. Why…
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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 opera 19 years previously, and was now sitting in the box…
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Renata Scotto on Maria Callas: greater than all of us
“Listen to me, everyone speak about Callas. But I know Callas. I know Callas before she was Callas.”
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