Maria de Francesca-Cavazza, born Maria Teresa Cavazza, (born August 1, 1937) is an Italian-born German operatic soprano and voice teacher who grew up in the United States.
[1] Raised in America, she is a graduate of the Sherwood Conservatory of Music at the Columbia College Chicago where she was a pupil of Maria Hussa-Greve and Garvin Williamson.
[3] Shortly thereafter, she moved to Germany to pursue further studies at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Margarete Düren.
[1] Francesca-Cavazza made her professional opera debut in 1962 at the Cologne Opera in a minor role, and the following year performed her first leading role with that company as Tsaritsa Militrisa in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
De Francesca-Cavazza has taught on the music faculties of conservatories in Munich and Nuremberg.