(Rome) Famous Italian lyric soprano Renata Scotto has died at the age of 89, the mayor of the city of Savona, where the singer was born, announced in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
“A unique singer, a great musician, a great artist, a great woman has died. Cultivated, refined, generous, simple,” Marco Russo wrote on his Facebook account.
According to the Ansa agency, the singer died at her home in New York, United States.
Born on February 24, 1934 in Savona, in the north-west of Italy, she studied singing in Milan and began her career in 1952 in her hometown in La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.
During her long career she has sung in the greatest opera houses around the world, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Royal Opera House in London and La Scala in Milan.
“I am heartbroken by the death of Renata Scotto, one of the greatest opera singers of all time, dedicated teacher to young singers,” famous tenor Placido Domingo wrote on X, ex-Twitter.
