She was born in Piraeus. She studied at the National Conservatory in the class of Marlene Boutou, graduating in 1963. Having been awarded the “Maria Callas” scholarship, she continued her higher education at the Academy of Vienna. She participated for the first time in a GNO production in 1967, performing the role of Mimi [La bohème]. Thereafter she appeared in operas in European cities such as Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Bremen, Mannheim, Essen, Wiesbaden, Zurich, Basel, Sofia, Belgrade, Munich and Berlin. She distinguished herself as a lyric-dramatic soprano, performing, among others, the parts of Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Turandot, Aida in the homonymous operas, Amelia [A Masked Ball [Un ballo in maschera], Leonora [The troubadour/Il trovatore], Ariadne [Ariadne on Naxos/Ariadne auf Naxos], The lady [Cardillac by Hindemith]. She also appeared as a soloist in concerts, distinguishing herself in Requiem by Verdi and in Four Last Songs [Vier letzte Lieder] by Richard Strauss. In 1990, in collaboration with her husband, the tenor Antonis Papakonstantinou, she founded the “Forum for Singing/Acting” in Frankfurt. In 1995, this institution organized the “First International Seminar on opera and song cycles” at the National Conservatory of Athens. A number of leading Greek lyric singers have been her students. She collaborated with the GNO during the 3-year period from 1971 to 1973, performing the roles of Nanetta [Falstaff], Amore [Orpheus and Eurydice/Orfeo ed Euridice] (Herodeon, 1971), Fiordiligi [Thus Do They All/Così fan tutte].