Carla Maffioletti is a Brazilian

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

. She was born in the second largest city in southern Brazil, Porto Alegre, a port town on Guaíba River. As a very young girl she began playing the violin before changing to

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. Her talents were such that by her early teens she was performing at concerts throughout the country. While at university she began taking singing lessons and very quickly developed her outstanding voice. Multilingual, Maffioletti decided to study voice at the

Maastricht Academy of Music The Maastricht Academy of Music, Dutch: ''Conservatorium Maastricht'', located in the city of Maastricht, is one of nine music academies in the Netherlands. The academy is a faculty of the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Zuyd i ...

in Maastricht, the Netherlands, as did her friend

Carmen Monarcha Carmen Monarcha (born August 27, 1979 in Belém, Pará) is a Brazilian soprano. Born into an artistic family in northern Brazil, her father is a writer and her mother, Marina Monarcha, a renowned Brazilian singer. She learned from a young age t ...

. While attending the academy, she came to the attention of

André Rieu André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (; is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Rieu and his orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act. He re ...

who hired her as a vocalist with his Johann Strauss Orchestra. In addition to global touring with the orchestra, Maffioletti has performed as a soloist on several of Rieu's albums and has appeared in his PBS television broadcasts in the United States. On Rieu's DVD ''I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (2009) she sings "Die Juliska aus Budapest" and (with

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and the Berlin Comedian Harmonists) "Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier".Andre Rieu – ''I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg''
at skyarts.co.uk

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André Rieu website Living people Musicians from Porto Alegre Brazilian sopranos Opera crossover singers Maastricht Academy of Music alumni Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian people of Dutch descent Year of birth missing (living people) {{Brazil-singer-stub