Singer/Actress
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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 year, Ms. Luttio demonstrated her versatility singing “Dinah” in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, and covered the title role in La Tragédie de Carmen with the Chicago Opera Theater’s young artist program. This past summer she was also featured as “Suky Tawdry” in The Beggar’s Opera, and covered the title role in The Rape of Lucretia for the Châteauville Foundation on the estate of the illustrious Maestro Lorin Maazel. Ms. Luttio is thrilled to be returning to the Chicago Opera Theater this spring to cover “Medea” in Giasone, and to sing in the chorus of Mose in Egitto.
Currently residing in Boston, Ms. Luttio recently received her M.M. 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 the 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. Past opera roles include “Despina” in Cosi Fan Tutte, the "Widow" in The Boor, “Rosa Gonzales" in Summer and Smoke, "Clori" in L'Egisto, and “Marcellina” from 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 Masters 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.