Allegra is a mezzo-soprano from Trumbull, Connecticut who was recently seen as Flora in Opera Theater of Connecticut's production of La Traviata. She just spent her 4th summer with Dolora Zajick's Institute for Young Dramatic Voices where she was Dorabella in the opera scenes program. Her other notable roles include Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and the Monitor in Suor Angelica with Opera Theater of Connecticut, Romeo in I Capuleti e I Montecchi with Manhattan Chamber Opera, Ruggiero in Alcina with Opera Amis and Hillhouse Opera and Dido and the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas with the Greater New Haven Community Chorus and Symphony.
She was selected as a NFAA young ARTS 2008 finalist and became the 2008 Henry Mancini Award Recipient for Classical Voice and a Level I winner. Allegra was part of the Bushnell Theater's Ensign Darling Vocal Fellowship which supported her voice lessons, vocal coachings, theory, recitals and performances throughout her high school years. She is a recipient of the 2007-2010 Elizabeth Anne Carlson Scholarship for the Performing Arts. On scholarship at the Washington National Opera's Institute for Young Singers she was Augusta in a scene from The Ballad of Baby Doe at the Kennedy Center. She made her opera debut in 2006 with the Connecticut Opera chorus in Carmen followed by Tosca, The Abduction from the Seraglio and Connecticut Grand Opera's Madama Butterfly.
Allegra has been in over twenty musicals, most recently she performed Mimi in Rent at the Edgerton Center. She played Iphigenia in the History Channel's "The True Story of Troy". She is pursuing a bachelor's in neuroscience with a music performance minor at Sacred Heart University where she anticipates graduating in 2011 and beginning her opera career. She studies voice with Valerie Sorel, Eric Trudel with Dolora Zajick as her mentor/teacher.