Renata Scotto Cause of Death

Renata Scotto, an Italian soprano singer, died in her home town of Savona on the 16th of August 2023, at the age of 89.

No cause of was given.  Scotto’s New York-based manager, Robert Lombardo, said he was called by her family and informed of her death.

“I had spoken to her several weeks ago and I didn’t get any indication that anything was going on,” he said. Scotto had homes in Italy and Armonk, New York.

“Renata Scotto is a true artist and profound connoisseur of voice and repertoire, gifted with technique, musicality, a personality of a rare power, always at the service of the composer, and able to emotionally stir the public in all the world in every phase of her long career,” the soprano Cecilia Gasdia, superintendent of the Fondazione Arena in Verona, said in a statement.

Renata Scotto is regarded as one of the best opera singers of her generation due to her sense of style, musicality, and ability as a spectacular singer-actress.

She appeared in 45 parts during the course of her career, including the main roles in Verdi’s La traviata, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, and Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur.

Renata Scotto co-starred with Luciano Pavarotti in the first Metropolitan Opera webcast in 1977, as Mimi in Puccini’s La bohème.