Lucia Palladino is an American soprano based in Nashville, TN. Her most recent performances include the Nashville Bel Canto Foundation’s Italian Opera Scenes Intensive, and the role of Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème with OperaStudio Molise in Campobasso, Italy and Pehlivanian Professional Opera Academy in Bled, Slovenia. She is a graduate of Boston University, where she earned a Master of Music in Voice Performance. At Boston University, she performed in multiple partial opera roles including Manon in Massenet’s Manon, Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and Carolina in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto. Lucia also earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Belmont University in 2021. She completed a minor in Italian language and was a member of the international foreign language honor society Phi Sigma Iota and national college honor society Alpha Chi. At Belmont, Lucia performed the roles of Romilda in Handel’s Serse, Beth in Copland’s The Tender Land, and numerous partial roles.  Upcoming performances include the role of Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen with OperaStudio Molise and Not(t)e di Natale with the Nashville Bel Canto Foundation.