Biography
Frances Devine studied voice, French Theatre, Italian and German in Paris before coming to New York City. She has performed Rosina in highlights from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Angelina in La Cenerentola, both at Music in Chelsea series and with Pro voce studios. She was Cherubino for Capitol Opera Harrisburg's **** production of Le Nozze di Figaro and Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte in Bourgas Bulgaria in ****.

In Russian Miss Devine has performed Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and she sang Czech songs with Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater in New York City. In concert version this year she was Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffman and Hansel in Hansel und Gretel.

Miss Devine learns music very quickly, moves and dances well, and has fluent French, excellent Italina, German , Spanish, and sung Russian and Czech. In new music she has premiered works by Davide Zannoni and sang the role of Alter Ego in his mini-opera buffa Blind Date with Alter Egos. She sang Daeron and played the flute in Adam Klein's concert reading of Leithian, Part *, and portrayed Luna Sylum in Susan Stodderl's historical opera AFRAID with Brooklyn Repertory Theater.

Other interests include belly -dancing, fashion, enjoying art, especially paintings. Straight theater roles performed are Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Angela in Arthur Miller's Two Way Mirror, Debra in Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet, and Rosalie Mirmon in De Toutes les Couleurs, a comedy by Bernard Granger.