sentences:  She is of Greek, English, and French heritage.Raised in Westchester, California, Marsee was the New York City Opera's leading mezzo-soprano from 1970, when she debuted as Sara, Duchess of Nottingham, opposite Beverly Sills, Plácido Domingo, and Louis Quilico, in Donizetti's "Roberto Devereux", with Julius Rudel conducting Tito Capobianco's production.She proceeded to sing a great gallery of roles at the City Opera, including Siébel in "Faust", Angelina in "La Cenerentola", Rosina in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Sesto in "Giulio Cesare", Cherubino in "Le nozze di Figaro" (opposite Michael Devlin), Nicklausse in "Les contes d'Hoffmann" (with Sills and Norman Treigle), Dorabella in "Così fan tutte" (with Patricia Brooks), Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier" (with Johanna Meier), Maddalena in "Rigoletto" (opposite José Carreras), Giovanna Seymour in "Anna Bolena", the Composer in "Ariadne auf Naxos" (with Carol Neblett), Maffio Orsini in "Lucrezia Borgia" (with Sills), the title role of "La belle Hélène", Zaida in "Il turco in Italia", Estella Drummle in the world premiere of "Miss Havisham's Fire" (with Rita Shane), Doña Manuela in "La loca", Mariana in the world premiere of "The Student from Salamanca", Sesto in "La clemenza di Tito", Néris in the Italian version of "Médée" (with Marisa Galvany), the name part in "Carmen" (in Frank Corsaro's production), the title role of "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein", Prince Charmant in "Cendrillon", Mallika in "Lakmé", Bellino in "Casanova's Homecoming", Adalgisa in "Norma", Dulcinée in "Don Quichotte", Charlotte in "Werther" (with Jon Garrison), Valencienne in "Die lustige Witwe", Marcellina in "Le nozze di Figaro" (with Herbert Perry as Figaro), Suzuki in "Madama Butterfly", La chatte in "L'enfant et les sortilèges", Berta in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Rose in the world premiere of "Marilyn", and Marta in "Mefistofele", as well as musical comedy.