sentences:  She made her American debut on 5 October 1985 as Gilda in a concert performance of "Rigoletto" in Philadelphia conducted by Riccardo Muti (repeated on 8 October at Carnegie Hall).In the same year she made her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Giulietta in "I Capuleti e i Montecchi".John Von Rhein of the "Chicago Tribune" wrote of her performance