Olivia Bonelli

Olivia Bonelli was an American operatic soprano.
Her career covered a span of almost 30 years, from the late 1940s through the 1970s. 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 become a soloist at New York's Radio City Music Hall, to several of the USA's major opera companies, a debut at New York City Opera, and 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 World War II servicemen in hospitals across the USA, premiered new works and pioneered in the early days of television opera. Her performances would receive reviews in major newspapers.