Daniela Dessì

[1] Born in Genoa, Italy, Dessì completed her studies at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.

She made her operatic debut on 7 December 1978 at Sanremo Casino's theatre as Serpina in La serva padrona by Pergolesi during the season of Savona's Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa.

[2] In 1980, she distinguished herself as a finalist at the Maria Callas International Competition organized by Italy's RAI TV.

[5] She later performed at the Verdi Theatre in Trieste, and also performed Adriana Lecouvreur in Palermo, Puccini's La fanciulla del West in Seville,[6] Manon Lescaut in Warsaw, Madama Butterfly in Hanover, and Aida in Verona and Cagliari.

[8] Giuseppe Verdi Giacomo Puccini Vincenzo Bellini Gaetano Donizetti Gioachino Rossini Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pietro Mascagni Umberto Giordano Francesco Cilea Ruggero Leoncavallo Christoph Willibald Gluck Claudio Monteverdi Georg Friedrich Händel Arrigo Boito Georges Bizet Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Domenico Cimarosa Jacques Offenbach Amilcare Ponchielli Sergei Prokofiev Nino Rota Antonio Salieri Tommaso Traetta Antonio Vivaldi Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Riccardo Zandonai