She was born in Piangipane, Ravenna, Italy in 1925 and completed her studies in singing at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the instruction of Manfredo Polverosi. She also studied under Riccardo Stracciari, among others. She first appeared after the Second World War, in 1946, as Violetta [The fallen woman/La traviata]. In 1947, she appeared at La Scala Milan as Lauretta [Gianni Schicchi] and Suzel in Mascagni opera L'amico Fritz, as well as at the Rome Opera as Micaela [Carmen]. In the period from 1948 to 1955 she appeared, among others, at Livorno’s Teatro Goldoni, singing the title role in Mascagni’s Lodoletta; at Teatro La Fenice, Venice and Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon as Nanetta [Falstaff]); at the Rome Opera as Daisy [Faust] and Manon [Manon]; at the Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari; at the Terme di Caracalla Festival; at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; at the Opera of Rio de Janeiro as Gilda [Rigoletto] and Zerlina [Don Giovanni]; at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence's May Music Festival) as Fulvia [The Touchstone/La pietra del paragone]; and, at the Teatro comunale di Bologna as Thaïs [Thaïs]. Her repertoire also included roles such as: Leila [The pear fishers/Les pêcheurs de perles], Louise [Louise] by Gustave Charpentier, Euridice Eurydice [Orfeo ed Euridice], Nedda [Pagliacci], Sophie [Werther] and Lucietta and in Wolf-Ferrari Ermanno's The Four Curmudgeons [I Quattro rusteghi] and Susanna's Secret [Il segreto di Susanna], respectively. In 1968, she toured in Great Britain singing the role of Mimi in La bohème. With the GNO she only interpreted the role of Violetta [La traviata] (1968/69, 1969/70, 1970/71).