Happy Birthday Renata Scotto
The tutelary diva of parterre.com is 76 years young today.
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Happy Birthday to a great singer who continues to give to the art we all love so much.
Interesting, the first time I hear an Italian singer in this part.
Only Kundry and Elle followed after this, not?
I heard her Elle, in 1996, with Louis Langrée. Unforgettable. She gave an interview on TV for the occasion, in which she said she had arrived in the fall of her career, hoping winter would never come. Loved that. Happy Birthday!
And Klytaemnestra!!!!
I sooooo wish I’d seen this! Did anyone here make the pilgrimage to Catania (I think it was there)? And is there a pirate recording?
Beautiful!!
Magnificent artist. If she needed a kidney, I would dig one of mine out with my car keys and give it to her.
with or without sterilizing them first?
(the car keys)
I think that back in the day (I’m thinking the Le Prophete recording), Scotto could have cut my kidney out with her high D.
And seriously, I mean that in a good way.
What is this nephritic obsession?
This reminds me that Eileen Farrell’s birhtday was February 13th….she’d have been 90!
What a voice!
How long did Scotto do the Marschallin? It seems to have revitalized her career. Could she have done it at the Met? That would have been a nice way to close her career there.
Only once, alas
Happy Birthday, Renata. What a singer, and what a lady. The Butterfly and Mimi of my lifetime!
I wonder if mention of Scotto’s birthday will be made on tonight’s Boheme broadcast, given that she was a famous Mimi.
Wasn’t Nebs coaching with her for a while?
okay I should have read down one more comment before posting
Netrebko should honor Scotto on her birthday tonight. After all, Scotto is Netrebko’s mentor and coach.
God, that would be great if she did. She has always struck me as a generous sort (I hope someone here doesn’t report her as a Class A bitch.)
I’ll never forget the time, eleven years ago now, while standing in my favorite (cheap) Lincoln Center hole-in-the-wall coffee stand when suddenly, behind me, I heard a very familiar voice asking for “oranjtch joooooooos” — well, I turned around to see none other than the fabled Signora Scotto, complete with stiletto heels, and still only about five feet in height!! I nearly jumped for joy and began babbling a stream in Italian — and at first she was put upon, but after she saw I was sincerely thrilled to see her, and especially after I urged her to ‘Sing again, Signora!!’ She gave me a huge smile — I can still remember those enormous eyes — and kindly signed an autograph. At that time she said she was there to help “I ragazzi di MET” and let us hope she keeps on helping them as long as she might.
For such a petite little lady she made an enormous impact on the world of bel canto (some would say can belto later on) and made an indelible impression on me in the one performance I saw her in — Elisabetta in ‘Don Carlo’ — she seemed to fill the entire stage with her presence. I also loved her Francesca da Rimini, and of course, her magisterial Butterfly and, for me, a sublime Amina!
TANTI, TANTI AUGURI, Cara ed Egregia Signora Scotto! Lei e stata un’ispirazione ed una primadonna davvero!
Thank Goodness for recordings and the really “greats” like La Scotto. Some may be dead and others may be retired but in this house “it’s as if she never said goodbye”
I was one to come to late to appreciating Scotto. She truly is amazing as the Marschallin – certainly the best I’ve heard judging by this excerpt. There is nothing fake about it.