Graziella Sciutti

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

Her voice was trained at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1949 she made ​​her debut in Venice as a concert singer 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 appeared in Aix -en- Provence and then had 1952 as Susanna in Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro a particularly stormy success. She also sang at the Holland Festival and at the Glyndebourne Festival and Edinburgh, where she primarily as Rosina in The Barber of Seville had great success. In 1955 she sang under Herbert von Karajan at La Scala Papagena in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

Since then, she has performed frequently 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 in New York. It was especially appreciated as Mozart and Rossini interpreter with excellent coloratura technique, but has also made an international name as a concert singer.

Ex exist numerous audio recordings of Graziella Sciutti, including complete recordings of Alcina with Joan Sutherland, Teresa Berganza and Luigi Alva, Don Pasquale and Fidelio with Decca, Don Giovanni with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eberhard Waechter, Giuseppe Taddei and Luigi Alva at EMI Electrola. In addition, Decca introduces singer portrait and RCA a complete recording of Puccini's rarely performed operetta La Rondine.