Luciana Serra (born November 4, 1946 in Genoa) is an Italian soprano.
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Serra made her international debut in 1966 at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, but did not achieve general acclaim until the late 1970s, when she took on coloratura roles in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Bellini's La sonnambula. In 1988 Serra debuted at the Vienna State Opera singing the Queen of the night in a new production of Die Zauberflöte conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and staged by Otto Schenk.
Her fame reached a peak during the 1980s, when she performed the "Queen of the night" in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House in London.
She began her career at the Erkel Theatre in Budapest. (from Rodolfo Celletti remarks)
She regularly teaches both at Villa Medici in Rome and at the Accademia La Scala in Milan. Her lessons are attended by many young people who are at the beginning of their career.
Her discography includes Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Il viaggio a Reims, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale and, Die Zauberflöte. Her interpretations are often considered mirabili, because almost every kind of music - be it a serious opera or a comic one, an air of transcendental difficulty by Giuseppe Verdi or one by Rossini - suits with her voice.