Olivia Bonelli's career covered a span of almost 30 years, from the late 1940's through the 1970's. While short of attaining "super-star" status, she nevertheless enjoyed a popular, steady and accomplished vocal career. She went from a small town choir, to soloist at New York's Radio City Music Hall, to many of the USA's major opera companies, to a debut at New York City Opera, to the Metropolitan Opera, for a special reading performance of Marvin David Levy's, "Mourning Becomes Electra." Along the way, she spent a year traveling with the USO, entertaining wounded service men in hospitals across the USA, premiered new works, and pioneered in the early days of television opera. This web site commemorates her musical life and serves as an historical record of one singer's journey through the operatic world of the 1950's and 1960's.

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