On the roster of the New York City Opera from 1993 to 1997, Diana has appeared in “Griffelkin” as the Devils’ Grandmother, “H.M.S. Pinafore” as Buttercup, “Le Nozze di Figaro” as Marcellina and “The Mikado” as Katisha. A student of Era Tognoli, the New Jersey native was a Young Artist in the Juilliard Opera Center during 1990-92 and while there was seen as Dame Quickly in “Falstaff” and the Old Baroness in “Vanessa” and was invited back as a guest artist in “L’lncornazione di Poppea” as Arnalta in 1994.

Awards to her credit are a full Fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival, Aspen Young Artist Vocal Competition Winner at the Aspen Music Festival, Juilliard’s Lucrezia Bori Grant, the Licia AlbaneselPuccini Foundation Award, as well as being a finalist in the Luciano PavarottilOpera Company of Philadelphia International Competition.

Diana has appeared in concert and performance with such opera luminaries as Robert Merrill, Jerome Hines, Teresa Kubiak, Eugenio Fernandi and Gilda Cruz-Romo.

She performed in concert at the Uruguayan Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina and has been seen numerous times with the Ars Musica Chorale performing Mascagni, Handel, Beethoven and Rossini works as well as in performance as Maria in “Mose” at Alice Tully Hall and Fenena in “Nabucco”. She also toured with the Chorale in concert through the U.K. ending at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Other credits include Marthe in “Faust”, La Principessa in “Suor Angelica”, Zita in “Gianni Schicchi, Amneris in “Aida”, Azucena in “II Trovatore” and as Marcellina in “Le Nozze di Figaro” with the Metro Lyric Opera.

She repeated the role of Azucena with the Hawaii Opera and appeared in DeFalla’s “El Amor Brujo” with the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra.

She reprised her role as Little Buttercup in “H.M.S. Pinafore” with the Virginia Opera in the Spring of 1998. Another Gilbert and Sullivan role to her credit is Ruth in “The Pirates of Penzance” with the Ocean City Pops, NJ as well as The Mother Abbess in “The Sound of Music both with the Ocean City Pops, NJ and the Gold Coast Opera, FL.

Diana has performed in the Festival of the Atlantic with the Rev. Alphonse Stephenson and the Orchestra of St. Peter-by-the-Sea and can be heard on their recordings “A Sea of Christmas” and “Our Land.” She also debuted in concert with with them at Carnegie Hall.
She was honored in 1997 by her Alma Mater, Pace University, as a Distinguished Alumna.