Sciutti, Graziella

Graziella Sciutti (1927-2001) was an Italian soprano vocalist and opera director. Born in Turin, she studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. During her student years, she was a soloist in a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. She made her formal debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1951 as Lucy in Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Telephone, and she continued to perform at that festival for many years. Three of the Mozart roles she performed there became signature pieces for her: Susanna in La Nozze di Figaro, Despina in Così Fan Tutte, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

She also created the title role of Henri Sauguet's Caprices de Marianne at Aix-en-Provence in 1954, the same year she made her Glyndebourne Festival debut as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini). She sang Carolina in Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto in the inaugural performances of the Piccola Scala, in Milan, where she went on to sing a broad repertory that included roles in Piccini's Buona Figliuola, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Le Comte Ory (Rossini), and Paisiello's Nina Pazza per Amore.

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