Elena Mauti Nunziata

Elena Mauti Nunziata (born 28 August 1946 in Palma Campania, Naples) is a retired Italian opera singer.

Mauti Nunziata initially attended the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Palermo where she was taught by Gina Cigna, and made her unofficial debut in Sicily as Musetta in La bohème. Her first recognized success on the stage was as Palermo in Bellini's I puritani. A lyric soprano, she gained notability playing Violetta in the opera La traviata, a remarkable 1977 production in Madrid, and afterwards played Nedda in the opera Pagliacci. Other notable performances include leading roles in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Verdi's Il trovatore and La forza del destino. From 1977 until 1979, Mauti-Nunziata appeared in 26 productions of the Metropolitan Opera, New York. While she ended her international career playing Magda in Puccini's La rondine and the title role in Tosca, during the 1990s she performed again in the Teatro Regio di Torino in the role of Francesca da Rimini.

In the late 1990s, while still in good vocal health, Mauti Nunziata left the opera scene with a farewell concert in Brescia, where she performed the end of act 1 of La traviata.

Further reading

• McClean, Eric, "L'Opéra de Montréal confident as it maps out future", The Montreal Gazette, 24 March 1984, p. C2 – via Google News
• Rich, Maria F. (ed.), "Mauti Nunziata, Elena". Who's Who in Opera, Arno Press, 1976, p. 350. ISBN 0-405-06652-X
• The New York Times, "Soprano Sings Mimì in Her Debut at Met", 7 November 1977, p. 43
• Zurletti, Michelangelo, "Con un Trovatore guerriero Verdi e tornato all'Arena", La Repubblica, 6 July 1985, p. 21 (in Italian)

External links

• "Interview with Elena Mauti-Nunziata", November 22, 1982