Born in Giovinazzo (Bari, Italy), she completed her music training in her home town. Early on she began a brilliant career debuting in Cavalli ‘s La Calisto at the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza (recorded on CD); Cimarosa`s Il Matrimonio Segreto at the Ravenna Festival , and Una Cosa Rara by Martin y Soler at the Konzerthaus Vienna. Currently she is a professor in voice training and opera singing at the music school Nino Rota in Monopoli and if very active in concerts and master classes both in Italy and abroad.
Her repertory includes:
Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) at the San Francisco Opera, at the Hamburg Staatsoper and at the Fenice in Venice ; Le Nozze di Figaro (Countess ) at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin, Palermo, Klagenfurt and Beijing; La Clemeza di Tito (Vitellia ) in Klagenfurt and Graz;
Medea by Cherubini in Catania (Italian version) and at the Teatro Real in Madrid (French version ) and Teatro alla Scala ( French version ).
Norma at the Rome Opera, at Staatsoper in Vienna; at the Colon in Buenos Aires, at the Palm Beach Opera, at the Comunale in Bologna, al Municipal of Santiago de Chile , at the Teatro Argentino de la Plata, at the Teatro Principal of Mallorca, at the Opera de Vichy, at the Opera de Massy , at the Vittorio Emanuele of Messina, at the Opera of San Paolo in Brazil .
Semiramide by Rossini in Naples ; Beatrice di Tenda at the Teatro alla Scala ;
Roberto Devereux in Santiago, Barcelona , Pamplona, Lyon, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, and at the Real Madrid; Lucrezia Borgia at La Scala di Milano ; Maria Stuarda (Maria and Elisabetta ) in Macerata, Montecarlo, Wiesbaden, Berlin State Opera , La Scala di Milano, Catania and Venice ; Anna Bolena at the Liceu in Barcelona ; Il Pirata at the Real Madrid and Dortmund. Caterina Cornaro at the Montpellier Festival – Radio France;
Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires , Cagliari , Vienna State Opera. Don Carlo ( Elisabetta ) at the Colon di Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile , Amsterdam and the Vienna State Opera ; Il Trovatore at the Teatro Petruzzelli in f Bari, Barcelona and Lima; Un Ballo in Maschera in Buenos Aires , Madrid, Pamplona . La Forza del Destino in Buenos Aires, Barcelona , Salerno . Opernahus Zurich . Aida in Lima,. Cagliari and Bratislava . Macbeth in Wroclaw, Bratislava and Dresden. Falstaff (Alice) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Turandot ( Liù ) in Bari; La Bohème ( Mimì ) a Malaga ; Tosca in Montevideo, Modena , Ferrara, Piacenza , Copenhagen, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Le Villi in Modena, Reggio Emilia, Guglielmo Ratcliff by Mascagni in Livorno, Lucca, Mantua ; Manon Lescaut at the Petruzzelli in Bari and the Liceu in Barcelona .I Pagliacci in Cagliari.
Andrea Chénier at the Colon in Buenos Aires and the Teatro Municipale di Bologna.
The Merry Widow at the San Carlo in Naples ;
He has collaborated with important conductors a such as : Savall ,Campanella , Oren, Pidò , Abel, Armiliato , Palumbo , Gelmetti , Allemandi , Jia , Frizza , Haider , Fogliani , Carminati , Ferro, Callegari , Benini , Guadagno , Arrivabeni , Ranzani , Manacorda , Yurkevych , Soudant , Fasolis , Gatti, Zedda , Guidarini , Morandi , Luisotti, Luisi and with Stage directors such as : Pizzi , Pier’Alli ,Hampe , Michieletto , Puggelli , Ronconi , De Ana, Krief , Crivelli , Tiezzi , Zeffirelli , Kokkos , Fo , Miller, Moshinsky , Deflo , Bolton .
She also carries out an intense activity on the concert stage : Maddalena di Prokofiev at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome; Petite Messe Solenelle and Cantate per I Borboni at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Schubert Mass in C major D. 452 at the Verona Philharmonic ; Vier Letzte Lieder by Strauss and Mahler Fourth Symphony with the Foundation Toscanini of Parma; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony ; Mendelssohn ‘s Lobgesang at the Lirico in Cagliari; and Verdi’s Requiem Mass at the Colon in Buenos Aires.
