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         Soprano, born in San Benedetto del Tronto, she completed her musical studies graduating in piano and singing. After winning various international lyric competitions (Marsala, Ostra, Budapest) she makes her debut in 1997 as Alice in Falstaff at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.
At the Rossini Opera Festival she appears then as Marianna in Signor Bruschino and Roggiero in Tancredi conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi.
 
            At Teatro Massimo in Palermo she sang the First lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. A regular guest of the Wexford Festival, she appeared there as Monica Respighi’s La Fiamma, Delia in Gomes’ Fosca and the title role in Massenet’s Sapho.
 
          The Rome Opera hires her for Monica in La Fiamma (Respighi) conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti directed by Hugo De Ana, Olga in Giordano’s Fedora opposite Placido Domingo and Juliette in Les contes of Hoffmann.

          At Teatro Verdi in Trieste she sings Dalinda in Mayr’s Ginevra di Scozia recorded live by Opera Rara within the celebrations for the theatre’s bicentennial and returns there, in summer 2000, as Orlowsky in Die Fledermaus, beginning a path in the world of operetta which will lead her to sing Venus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the underworld, the title role in Costas’ Scugnizza, Anna Elisa in Paganini and the title role in Kalman’s Grafin Mariza for the Operetta Festival in Trieste.
 
          In autumn 2000, at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, she sings in Ghost Caffè, a contemporary work by Carlo Galante, and the following year she sings Amelia in Rendano’s Consuelo in Cosenza.

          From 2001 she opens to a more international career singing Mimi (La Bohème) and Amelia (Un ballo in maschera) in Wiesbaden, Odabella (Attila) at the Opèra de Montpellier and Lecce, Desdemona (Otello) at the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, Leonora (Trovatore) in Lima, the title role in Norma in Giessen, Juliette (Les contes d’Hoffmann) and Mimi (La Bohème) in Karlsruhe, Nedda (Pagliacci) in Trieste, Musetta (La Bohème) at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

          Sensitive interpreter of the sacred, chamber and lieder repertoire, she opened the 15th Settembre Musicale in Modena accompanied by Leone Magiera and she has often interpreted the Feste Musicali in Bologna, city where she also appeared in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle with the due Canino-Antonio Ballista. With Vivaldi’s Gloria she appears at the Saint Riquier Festival, accompanied by the Solisti di Bologna in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the 23rd Cantiere dell’arte in Montepulciano and with Donizetti’s Requiem in Bergamo under Gianluigi Gelmetti.

          Her recent engagements include: her debut in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia in Giessen and Wiesbaden; her debut in Carmen in Giessen, revived also in Salerno, Savona and Karlsruhe; Adalgisa in Norma in Mannheim and Bologna; Marchesa del Poggio in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno in Nancy; Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Karlsruhe and, directed by Lindsay Kemp, in Peralada, San Sebastian, Santander and Cordoba; Elisabetta in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Mercadante’s Il Giuramento and Werther in Giessen; The Merry Widow (Hanna Glawari) at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Carmen in Karlsruhe, Messina, Caracalla and Toulon under M° Carella; Le Roi d’Ys and Ariadne auf Naxos (Komponist) at the Opéra de la Wallonie in Liége; Edgar (Tigrana) at Teatro Regio in Turin and at Teatro Comunale in Bologna; the world premiere of Tutino’s The Servant in Macerata; The Saint of Bleecker Street (Desideria) in Marseille.

          Among her future engagements:  Cavalleria rusticana (Lola) at Teatro alla Scala conducted by Daniel Harding and directed by Mario Martone, Menotti's Goya in Giessen, Norma (Adalgisa) in Taormina, Mefistofele (Elena) at the Opéra de Montecarlo, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Carmen at the Opéra de Marseille. 

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Vincenzo Bellini
Norma (Adalgisa)

Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford)
The turn of the screw (Governess)

Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens (Cassandre)

Georges Bizet
Carmen (Carmen)

Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda (Elisabetta)
Anna Bolena (Giovanna Seymour)
Roberto Devereux (Sara)

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Alceste
Armide
Iphigenie en Tauride

Leos Janacek
Jenufa (Kostelnicka)

Edouard Lalo
Le Roi d’Ys (Margared)

Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana (Santuzza)

Jules Massenet
Werther (Charlotte)

Jacques Offenbach
Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Giulietta)
La Belle Hélène (Hélène)

Francis Poulenc
Les dialogues des Carmélites (Mere Marie)
La voix humaine

Giacomo Puccini
Edgar (Tigrana)

Richard Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos (Komponist)
Der Rosenkavalier (Oktavian)

Giuseppe Verdi
Un giorno di regno (Marchesa del Poggio)
Don Carlos (Eboli)
La forza del destino (Preziosilla)

Richard Wagner
Tannhauser (Venus)
 

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