<img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2023/08/16/0/0/2058/1775/664/0/75/0/8be35e8_40b7d2e008914beea40405d0b9218a13-0-cec53e4fdb6a4dffa536f64466c3be5d.jpg" srcset=" https://img.lemde.fr/2023/08/16/0/0/2058/1775/556/0/75/0/8be35e8_40b7d2e008914beea40405d0b9218a13-0-cec53e4fdb6a4dffa536f64466c3be5d.jpg 556w, https://img.lemde.fr/2023/08/16/0/0/2058/1775/600/0/75/0/8be35e8_40b7d2e008914beea40405d0b9218a13-0-cec53e4fdb6a4dffa536f64466c3be5d.jpg 600w, https://img.lemde.fr/2023/08/16/0/0/2058/1775/664/0/75/0/8be35e8_40b7d2e008914beea40405d0b9218a13-0-cec53e4fdb6a4dffa536f64466c3be5d.jpg 664w, https://img.lemde.fr/2023/08/16/0/0/2058/1775/700/0/75/0/8be35e8_40b7d2e008914beea40405d0b9218a13-0-cec53e4fdb6a4dffa536f64466c3be5d.jpg 700w, https://img.lemde.fr/2023/08/16/0/0/2058/1775/800/0/75/0/8be35e8_40b7d2e008914beea40405d0b9218a13-0-cec53e4fdb6a4dffa536f64466c3be5d.jpg 800w" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw" alt="Tenor Placido Domingo, left, appears with soprano Renata Scotto in a backstage dressing room prior their opening night performance of Vincenzo Bellini's " norma"="" at="" the="" metropolitan="" opera="" house="" in="" new="" york="" on="" sept.="" 22,="" 1981.="" "="" width="100%" height="auto">
Italian soprano Renata Scotto has died aged 89, the mayor of her hometown said on Wednesday, August 16, as fellow musicians paid tribute to "one of the greatest opera singers of all time." Her son, Filippo Anselmi, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause.
"A unique singer, a great musician, a great artist, a great woman has died," the mayor of Savona, Marco Russo, wrote on Facebook, praising Scotto as "cultured, refined, generous, simple."
Born on February 24, 1934, in northwest Italy, Scotto studied singing in Milan and began her career in 1952 in Savona in Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata. She would go on to grace the world's greatest opera houses, from Milan to London and New York.
"I am heartbroken by the death of Renata Scotto, one of the greatest opera singers of all time and a dedicated teacher of young singers," tenor Placido Domingo said on social media.