Emmy award-winning artist Diane di Stasio is an Italian-American Soprano and Film/TV/Theatre Actor. Her sensational talent has led her to performances with The San Francisco Opera, The Scopus Awards in Geneva, Switzerland, and concerts in Torino, Italy; Paris, France; Toronto, Canada; the Los Angeles Music Center; Carnegie Hall, and in many churches and synagogues across America.
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Diane excelled in many sports including dance, swimming, soccer and track and field. She ranked in the top five in discus throw for the United States and competed at the World NABBA Competition at Wembley Stadium in London.
Diane started her opera training at USC’s Opera Theater program in Los Angeles. She later graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music. She began her career as an accomplished vocalist with the San Francisco Opera and later joined the North American tour of British Idol Paul Potts as his guest artist with their final performance at the Beacon Theater in New York City.
Her talents as an actor include extensive TV commercial acting appearances including a Super Bowl commercial as an opera singer for Diet Pepsi with Ray Charles. She received recognition from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for her vocal contribution to the track for the 2008 Emmy Award-winning CBS Series “A Guiding Light”. She has also appeared in a solo performance for a U.S. Presidential Inauguration.
With a love of both Old World and contemporary styles, di Stasio has developed her own sound. Her debut album, Vox Eterna, is a fusing of pop, rock, and classical sounds that reveals the heart, soul, and emotions of an artist who has embraced both personal and professional liberation. The album features collaborations with many of Nashville’s top studio musicians and players from the Nashville Symphony.
While she made Nashville, Tennessee her home for over ten years, di Stasio is now based in New York City. She continues her training, coaching, and performing with world-renowned voice coaches and artists from New York’s Metropolitan Opera House and has just returned from Italy where she sang the title role of Suor Angelica in the 2021 Narnia Festival.