Renata Scotto, world-renowned Italian soprano, dies at 89

Italian opera singer Renata Scotto is photographed at a London hotel in 1963. The soprano died Wednesday at the age of 89. (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Renata Scotto, a soprano of uncommon intensity who became a successful director after her singing career, died Wednesday in her hometown of Savona, Italy. She was 89.

Scotto’s New York-based manager, Robert Lombardo, said he was called by her family and informed of her death.