Real name: Bernadette Manca di Nissa

Effective period / Period of releases: 1985 - 1999

Italian Contralto Vocalist. Bernadette Manca di Nissa (born in Cagliari, Italy on 27th of September 1954) is an Italian operatic contralto who has sung leading roles in the principal opera houses of Italy as well as internationally.

During the later years of her stage career, she also taught singing in master classes and courses at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Associazione Musicale Scaligera and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, amongst others. She retired from the stage in 2007, after which she has devoted herself to her teaching career. Nowadays, she is professor of Singing at Conservatorio di Cagliari