Recorded Legacy
Some of Renata Scotto's finest recordings came from the late 1950s and 1960s, during which her voice was at its freshest. Examples of Scotto at her best are her Lucia di Lammermoor with Giuseppe di Stefano and Ettore Bastianini in a Mercury recording from 1959, as well as her Deutsche Grammophon recordings of La traviata with Gianni Raimondi and Ettore Bastianini and La bohème with Gianni Poggi and Tito Gobbi, both which were conducted by Antonino Votto in the early 1960s. Her 1966 recording of Madama Butterfly with Carlo Bergonzi and Rolando Panerai, under Barbirolli for EMI is frequently referred to as definitive.
Other important commercial recordings include Rigoletto with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Carlo Bergonzi under Rafael Kubelík, Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, I Pagliacci with José Carreras, Cavalleria rusticana with Plácido Domingo, Norma with Tatiana Troyanos, Otello (Verdi's), Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chénier. The last three were all collaborations with Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes and conductor James Levine.
It's worth noting also that Scotto recorded (either in studio or in live performance) the complete Puccini soprano repertoire with the exceptions of Turandot, Magda in La rondine and Minnie in La fanciulla del West. Many of these were recorded with Lorin Maazel for Columbia Records.
Scotto worked with conductors such as Gianandrea Gavazzeni (her self-described personal favorite), Vittorio Gui, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Antonino Votto, and Tullio Serafin. She also enjoyed especially close musical partnerships with Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel and James Levine.
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