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"[Alla Cohen's new operetta, 'The Cunning Housekeeper'] is fun and silly, utterly charming, and the music and singers...were all good. However, the cunning housekeeper, mezzo-soprano Rebecca Luttio, was downright terrific. What a beautiful voice!" ---Susan Miron, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Emerging mezzo-soprano, Rebecca Luttio is quickly gathering attention for a voice described as “red velvet” and exciting audiences with a daring, dramatic sensibility. Last April, Ms. Luttio made her debut with the Florida Grand Opera in a captivating performance of “Zerlina” in Mozart's Don Giovanni. As a member of their elite Young Artist Program for the 2010/2011 season, Ms. Luttio covered the “Muse/Nicklausse” in Jaques Offenbach's Les Contes D’Hoffmann as well as performing in a number of recitals in the greater Miami area.
In the 2009-10 season, Ms. Luttio returned to the Chicago Opera Theater as a young artist, covering the leading role of “Medea” in Cavalli’s Giasone. In the previous season, Ms. Luttio covered the title role in La Tragédie de Carmen, and also gave a much acclaimed performance.
Additionally this year, Ms. Luttio was invited to reprise her role as “Suky Tawdry” in John Gay/Benjamin Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera, and was featured as one of the two “Lay Sisters” in Suor Angelica for the Châteauville Foundation on the estate of the illustrious Maestro Lorin Maazel. Ms. Luttio was also invited to cover the title role in The Rape of Lucretia in the previous 2009 Castleton Festival.
Currently residing in Boston, Ms. Luttio recently received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance after a very successful two years at the New England Conservatory of Music. Ms. Luttio was cast in leading roles in every main-stage opera offered and was also chosen among two students to represent New England Conservatory for the Marilyn Horne Foundation competition her very first year.
Ms. Luttio has sung in several young artist programs both domestic and abroad, including Operafestival di Roma, American Austrian Mozart Academy, Oberlin in Italy, Opera North, and the Chicago Opera Theater. Other operatic roles include “Dinah” in Trouble in Tahiti, “Despina” in Cosi Fan Tutte, the "Widow" in The Boor, “Rosa Gonzales" in Summer and Smoke, "Clori" in L'Egisto, and “Marcellina” in Le Nozze di Figaro. Distinctions include merit vocal and dance scholarships from St. Olaf College, American Musical and Dramatic Academy and New England Conservatory for a Master of Music in Vocal Performance. Ms. Luttio is also a two-time scholarship winner from the Society of Singers.
A native of Seattle, Washington, Ms. Luttio owes much of her captivating stage presence to her extensive training in classical ballet, and made her professional debut in the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the age of nine. Ms. Luttio has also studied ballet, tap, jazz, and musical theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota from which she also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
As a versatile actress, Ms. Luttio recently made her professional theatre debut at the American Repertory Theatre of Cambridge, as “Simonetta” in the world premiere of Stephen Greenblatt and Charles Mee’s Cardenio, and remains active in the Boston theater community.