Dr. Linda Di Fiore, mezzo soprano and Regents Professor, has performed professionally for over thirty years as a soloist in opera, oratorio, recital, and musical theatre. Her career has included guest performances throughout the United States with such groups as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Bach Aria Festival in New York City, Orlando Opera, Pensacola Oratorio Society, Wichita Opera, Music Theatre of Wichita, Winter Haven Messiah Society, North Florida Arts Opera Series, Longview Opera, Orchestra of New Spain, Arlington Choral Society, Richardson Symphony, San Angelo Symphony and the Da Ponte String Quartet.. An active song recitalist, she has performed recitals in Innsbruck, Austria; Rome, Venice, Cremona, Mantua, and Castelfranco-Veneto, Italy; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and in the U.S. in Santa Barbara, St. Petersburg, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. In addition, Dr. Di Fiore has toured England and Scotland as an oratorio soloist and has lectured for the Smithsonian Institution in Vienna and Prague for its music festival tour of those two cities.

Dr. Di Fiore joined the faculty of the University of North Texas in 1996. Prior to that, she was a Professor of Voice at the University of Florida, where she taught for fourteen years. While there, she twice received the Teacher of the Year Award for the College of Fine Arts as well as a Teaching Incentive Program Award from the University of Florida . She is in demand as a clinician and has presented master classes for the Voice Centre in Toronto; Conservatory of Music in San Juan; Steffani Conservatory in Castelfranco-Veneto, Italy; University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Eastman School of Music, Fort Worth Opera; Opera in the Ozarks; Seagle Arts Colony; Kansas City Lyric Opera; Orlando Opera; as well as many other universities and colleges throughout the United States. In 2004, Dr. Di Fiore was chosen as one of four Master Teachers to participate in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program in Colorado. She has taught in summer programs in Rome, Venice, and Casalmaggiore, Italy, and Innsbruck, Austria. In summer of 2008, she will join the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. At UNT she has received the Citation for Distinguished Service to International Education and the President's Council Teaching Award. She holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Di Fiore served as a Visiting Professor of Voice at the Eastman School of Music for the 2005 fall semester.

Current and former students of Dr. Di Fiore have participated in some of the most prestigious summer programs in the U.S., including Wolf Trap, Santa Fe, Chautauqua, Central City, Aspen, Opera North, Ashlawn-Highland, Des Moines Metro, Brevard, Opera in the Ozarks, and Seagle Fine Arts Colony. They have populated numerous Young Artist Programs, including Metropolitan Opera (Lindemann), Ft. Worth Opera, El Paso Opera, Kentucky Opera, Utah Opera, and have sung roles in most of the major opera houses in the U.S. Competitions in which her students have won or placed include Metropolitan Opera Auditions (all levels), Dallas Opera Guild, El Paso Opera Guild, Palm Beach Opera Competiton, Birmingham Opera, Bel Canto Competition, MTNA (national level) and NATSAA (national level).

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Excerpts from a recital of women's music given in Georgia, February 2004

Die Klagende...........................Pauline Viardot-Garcia