Greek-American mezzo-soprano Xenia Tziouvaras was born in Southern California and lives in Florence, where she is a young artist with the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Among her more recent engagements are Ayda, amore fatale (Amneris), I due Foscari (Pisana) and Roméo et Juliette (Gertrude) at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Ernani (Giovanna), La finta semplice (Giacinta), Carmen (Mercedes) and Mozart’s Coronation Mass at the Teatro del Maggio, Florence; ‘Giovani voci alla Fenice’ at Teatro La Fenice, Venice; and Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music at Carnegie Hall, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia), Rota’s I due timidi (Signora Guidotti), La Cenerentola (Tisbe), Così fan tutte (Dorabella and Despina) and Rorem’s A Childhood Miracle (Emma), all in New York.