Sara Scuderi

Sara Scuderi ( born December 11, 1906 in Catania, † December 24, 1987 in Milan ) was an Italian opera singer.

Life

Scuderi was born in Catania, Sicily. She studied under Matteo Aderno.

She made her stage debut at the Teatro Coccia in Novara as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello. In 1926 she went to the Netherlands, where they quickly became popular. 1929-1931 she went to Latin America on tour. As a result, she sang again in Holland, but also in the major opera houses in Italy and in Europe. In 1932 she made ​​her debut at La Scala in Milan, where she frequently appeared until 1945. For her interpretation of Puccini's Tosca, she was celebrated nationwide. The production of Tosca at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome with Gigli and Luigi Monte Santo is legendary. Scuderi sang in the world premieres of Ernst Krenek Cefalo e Procri (Teatro Goldoni, Venice 1934), by Gian Francesco Malipiero's Giulio Cesare (Genoa 1936) and of Ezio Camussis Il volto della Vergine.

Your farewell to the stage they took place in the late 1940s. After that she worked as a singing teacher in Milan.

In their last stage of life Scuderi lived in the Casa di Riposo by Musicisti, the world's first nursing home for retired musicians and opera singers, founded in 1896 by Giuseppe Verdi. The director Daniel Schmid Scuderi filmed in 1984 in his documentary, Il Bacio di Tosca about the everyday life in this old age home. Scuderi listening to the sound of her voice on records and began singing along. Three years later, Scuderi died.