Renata Scotto Children: Meet Laura and Filippo.

Publish date: 2024-05-03

Renata Scotto was an Italian soprano, opera director, and voice teacher. Renata Scotto and her husband Lorenzo Anselmi had two children: a daughter and a son.

Their daughter Laura is a manager of a publicity agency, and their son Filippo runs an opera artists management agency.

Renata Scotto 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.

Scotto’s big break came in 1957, when she was cast as Amina in a La Scala performance of Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the Edinburgh Festival.

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.

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