She began her vocal training at the Tyrol State Conservatory in her native city, and won the Austrian competition Jugend musiziert in 1983.

[3] In 1988, she appeared for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall and the Glyndebourne Festival as Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Bernard Haitink.

In 1997, she performed the Woodbird in Wagner's Siegfried at La Scala in Milan,[5] and in 1998, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at the Arena di Verona Festival.

[7] She went on a concert tour through Japan with members of the Vienna Philharmonic in January 2010 and gave a solo recital at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme on 5 May 2010.

In 2005, she debuted in the role of Rosina in The Barber of Seville in a guest performance of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma at the Shanghai Opera House.

From 27 December 2010, until 6 January 2011, she toured Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Dalian, Hangzhou, Changsha, Meizhou in New Year concerts with the Berliner Symphoniker.

Under the direction of Claudio Abbado she appeared in 1985 alongside Montserrat Caballé and Marilyn Horne in the TV production Rossini at Versailles.