Pacific Collegium Artist Profiles

Tonia d'Amelio Soprano

A founding member of the Pacific Collegium, Tonia has sung professionally in the Bay Area with the Philharmonia Chorale, San Francisco Opera Chorus, City Concert Opera Orchestra, AVE, inQuire, and Volti, among others. A native of New York City, Tonia holds a B.A. in music from Harvard University—where she sang Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea—and a M.M. in voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. During her time at SFCM, she participated in the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute, singing Blondchen in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She was recently featured as the soprano soloist in the Vaughan Williams Mass in Dorian with the American Bach Soloists, performed Vivaldi's Nulla in mundo pax sincera with the Pacific Collegium, and in August sings the role of Piacere (“Pleasure”) in City Concert Opera Orchestra's production of Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.