Opera Babes Opera Babes The Opera Babes are a crossover classical music duo, consisting of Karen England (born 1974), mezzo-soprano, and Rebecca Knight (born 1970), soprano. The duo came to wide attention when they sang "Un bel dì vedremo" (from the opera "Madame Butterfly") on television sports programmes, beginning in 2002. In addition to performing with major orchestras in Britain and touring with their own shows, they released their first album, "Beyond Imagination" in 2002 and their second album, "Renaissance", in 2006. The Opera Babes met in Cambridge while performing Mozart's "The Magic Flute" in a touring opera company. England studied at
Julianna Di Giacomo Mathilde in Rossini's "Guillaume Tell" and portrayed Madame Lidoine in "Dialogues of the Carmelites" at the Pittsburgh Opera. In 2012 Di Giacomo made her first appearance with the Los Angeles Opera as Donna Anna to Ildebrando D'Arcangelo's Don Giovanni under conductor Placido Domingo. That same year she made her debut at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in the title role of Bellini's "Norma" and sang the title role in Giacomo Puccini's "Suor Angelica" at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In 2013 she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique as Rozenn in Édouard Lalo's "Le roi d'Ys". In 2014 Di Giacomo