Born on the windswept tundras of Russia (or Scotland or Chicago, she can't quite recall as she was very young at the time,) Violetta learned two things at her mother's knee: what a bony knee looks like, and how to appreciate opera. She studied singing with the magnificent Nancy Kulp and made her professional debut and subsequent farewell performance in one evening as the Madame in "Butterfly." She now works as a waitress in a disreputable restaurant and devotes her free time to charitable work such as thinking of the children and giving up one cup of coffee a day.