Jeanette Scovotti
[1] That same year she made her debut at the New York City Opera as Monica in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium.Her roles at the Metropolitan Opera include Echo and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Lisa in La sonnambula, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Xenia in Boris Godunov, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Poussette in Manon, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Gilda in Rigoletto, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Nannetta in Falstaff, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Fiakermilli in Arabella, and Adina in L'elisir d'amore.[5] In 1964 she performed the role of Tuptim in The King and I in a concert version with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra under conductor Lehman Engel.At the SFO she appeared as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Musetta in La bohème, and Miss Hampton in the U.S. premiere of Gunther Schuller's The Visitation in 1966.[7] Following her year in San Francisco, Scovotti moved to Germany and spent the next decade appearing in productions in Europe.