Costanza cuccaro biography of william

When Costanza Cuccaro won the Met auditions, she was one of the youngest contestants ever to win first place. An interview with Johnny Carson was part of the grand prize.

“What is your goal?” Mr.

Carson asked.

Costanza cuccaro biography of william

Ms. Cuccaro said she wasn’t after money or fame, but rather to be able to sing in her later years as freshly and as beautifully as she was doing then, at 23.

After studying in Rome as a Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Cuccaro began her international career at the Zurich Opera and later became the leading lyric-coloratura at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

She sang at the Met, at the Teatro Colon, and at the Toronto, Montreal, Hamburg, Munich and Vienna State operas. In addition to her opera performances, Ms. Cuccaro appeared with the Chicago, Cleveland, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Detroit, Toronto and Tel Aviv orchestras and was noted for her Bach interpretations in Moscow, Prague, Leipzig, Cleveland, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

Now the Chancellor’s Professor of Music at Indiana University