Graziella Sciutti

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Graziella Sciutti (born April 17, 1927 in Turin , † April 9, 2001 in Geneva ) was an Italian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Her voice was trained at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome . In 1949 she made her debut as a concert singer in Venice , and in 1950 at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence as a stage singer in Domenico Cimarosa's comic opera The Secret Marriage . In the following years she also appeared in Aix-en-Provence and then had a particularly stormy success as Susanna in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro in 1952 . She also sang at the Holland Festival and the Glyndebourne and Edinburgh Festivals , where she was particularly successful as Rosina in The Barber of Seville . In 1955 she sang Papagena in Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte under Herbert von Karajan at La Scala in Milan .

Since then she has made frequent guest appearances at La Scala, the Vienna State Opera , the Salzburg Festival , in Rome, Naples , Paris and London . In 1961 she became a member of the Metropolitan Opera New York. She was valued primarily as a Mozart and Rossini interpreter with excellent coloratura technique , but has also made an international name for herself as a concert singer.

There are already numerous audio documents by Graziella Sciutti, including complete recordings of Alcina with Joan Sutherland , Teresa Berganza and Luigi Alva , Don Pasquale and Fidelio at Decca , Don Giovanni with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Eberhard Waechter , Giuseppe Taddei and Luigi Alva at EMI-Electrola . In addition, Decca is making a portrait of the singer and RCA is making a complete recording of Giacomo Puccini's rarely performed operetta La rondine .

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SURNAME Sciutti, Graziella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2001
Place of death Geneva