Photo: Davide Peterle

Ms. Renée has sung frequently with Luciano Pavarotti, including a series of concerts in the United States during the 2002/2003 season and past appearances with the tenor at Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl. The soprano has sung in major opera houses worldwide, notably the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Opéra Nationale and the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Sydney Opera, the Opéra de Montecarlo, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Geneva’s Grand Théâtre, the San Francisco Opera, the Budapest Opera, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the Salzburg Festival and the Bonn Opera. In addition to Milan’s La Scala, the artist has appeared at more than thirty opera houses in Italy among which those in Rome, Parma, Turin, Venice, Trieste, Bologna, Lucca, Genova, Verona, Palermo and Bari. Ms. Renée has performed under the baton of such distinguished conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Richard Bonynge, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Luciano Berio, Daniel Barenboim, Gustav Kuhn, Alain Lombard and John Mauceri.
        In the past few seasons she has added several new roles to her repertoire: Santuzza in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, (2003), Adriana Lecouvreur (2002), Attè in Mascagni’s Nerone (2002) and Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello (2001). In addition, she sang the Countess in a televised production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro from the Teatro Argentina in Rome (2002) and performed Alice Ford in Michigan Opera Theatre’s 2001 production of Falstaff. Ms. Renée frequently sings Tosca, a role which she debuted in 1996. She was chosen to sing the leading role in the world premiere opera by Italian composer Marco Tutino, Dylan Dog, with the Fondazione Arena di Verona.
        In addition to frequent appearances on Italian television (most recently, a concert for Padre Pio), Ms. Renée has hosted a television show on classical music and opera called “Un Tocco di Classica”. The soprano performs numerous concerts during the year in Italy and abroad with program selections that range from Baroque to Schönberg, and has sung with orchestras such as the RAI National Orchestra, the Rossini Opera Festival Orchestra, Milan’s Verdi Orchestra and Manchester's Halle Orchestra. The artist made her screen debut in Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather III movie, singing and acting in the opera sequences from Cavalleria Rusticana. The soprano resides in Milan, Italy.