Pamela Dellal was born in West Caldwell, New Jersey, and enrolled in Boston University in 1977 to study flute and voice.
Her first mentor was Thomas Dunn, music director of the Handel and Haydn Society, who accepted her into the university's chamber chorus.
[2] In opera, she appeared as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, as Bradamante in Handel's Alcina, in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito as Sesto, in his Così fan tutte as Dorabella, as Lucretia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, as Erika in Barber's Vanessa, and as Paulina in John Harbison's Winter's Tale after Shakespeare's play.
[3] She performed in 1989 at SUNY Purchase music by Vivaldi with the Master Singers of Westchester conducted by Les Robinson Hadsell, his Gloria, Magnificat and Beatus vir, alongside Rosa Lamoreaux.
[12] Dellal has been on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory,[3] Brandeis University, and the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where she teaches voice and diction.