sentences:  Born in Chiusavecchia, Devia trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Iolanda Magnoni.She made her stage debut at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso in the title role of "Lucia di Lammermoor" in 1973 and quickly sang throughout Italy, making her debut at La Scala in Milan in 1987, as Giulietta in "I Capuleti e i Montecchi".On the international scene, she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera from 1979 to 1994 as Lucia, Gilda, Nannetta, Despina and Konstanze, and at Carnegie Hall as Lakmé, in 1979, and later as Teresa in "Benvenuto Cellini", Giulietta in "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", Elvira in "I puritani" and "Adelia".