Renata Scotto
Renata Scotto was an Italian soprano, one of the major opera singers of the second half of the twentieth century. She was admired for bel canto style, dramatic intelligence and extraordinary musical detail.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Verdi, Donizetti and Cherubini, including recordings with Ettore Bastianini, Maria Callas, Nicola Zaccaria and major Italian forces.
Scotto’s singing combined technical command, textua...
VERDI Rigoletto
Stereo studio recording, 1960
Total duration: 1hr 59:23
Rigoletto - Ettore Bastianini
Gilda - Renata Scotto
Duca di Mantova - Alfredo Kraus
Sparafucile - Ivo Vinco
Maddalena - Fiorenza Cossotto
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni
CHERUBINI Medea
Studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 1hr 58:08
Medea - Maria Callas
Glauce - Renata Scotto
Neris - Miriam Pirazzini
Giasone - Mirto Picchi
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor
Stereo studio recording, 1959
Total duration: 1hr 51:56
Lucia – Renata Scotto
Edgardo – Giuseppe Di Stefano
Enrico – Ettore Bastiannini
Raimondo – Ivo Vinco
Alisa – Stefania Malagù
Arturo – Franco Ricciardi
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala
conducted by Nino Sanzogno
