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Graziella Sciutti: b/w Portrait-Photo (Photo studio Fayer), hand-signed.
3,5 x 5,5 inches (9 x 14 cm), fine condition.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Graziella Sciutti ( 1927 - 2001), was an Italian soprano opera singer and later vocal teacher and opera producer.
Sciutti's concert debut was in 1949 in Venice, with 18th-century Italian songs. Her stage debut at Aix-en-Provence in 1951 singing Elisetta in Il matrimonio segreto and the woman in The Telephone and realized that she "was a person who could do opera".
She appeared as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in 1954. Later she appeared in London at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (debut 1956 as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera), at Salzburg, Vienna and in San Francisco.
Referred to as "The Callas of the Piccola Scala" Sciutti was renowned for her interpretation of Mozart's "soubrette" characters, Susanna, Despina, and perhaps especially for her singing in the role of Zerlina in the 1959 recording of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Carlo Maria Giulini. She created the title role in Sauguet’s Les caprices de Marianne in 1954.
In later years she turned her attention to teaching and operatic production.
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