Diana Soviero

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Diana Soverio (March 19, 1946, Jersey City) is an American operatic soprano of international stature, a recipient of the Richard Tucker Award in 1979.

Soviero studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Maria Gurewich, Matin Rich and Boris Goldovsky. She made her debut under the name Diana Catani-Soviero at the Chatauqua Opera in 1969 as Mimi in La Boheme. In the early years of her career she performed widely in smaller American theatres building herself a repertory.

She made her debut at the New York City Opera in 1973, the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1979, the San Francisco Opera in 1982, establishing herself in verismo roles, notably as Nedda, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly.

Beginning in 1981, she appeared widely in Europe; Zurich, Toulouse, Nice, Hamburg, Munich, Rome, Palermo, etc. In 1987, she made her debuts at both La Scala in Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1988, and Royal Opera House in London in 1989.

Her repertory includes; Gounod's Marguerite and Juliette, La traviata, Boito's Margherita, Puccini's Il trittico and Tosca, Giordano's Maddalena and Fedora, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, etc.

Soviero was married for a time to Bernard Uzan, artistic director of l'Opéra de Montréal, where she often appeared in the 1990s.

[edit] Sources

• Soviero Biography on Operissimo.com (in German)