 She was born in Venice and brought up under the protection of the aristocratic brother composers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello.Her singing teacher was another composer, Michelangelo Gasparini.For many years in the service of the Elector Palatine, she made her operatic debut at Venice in 1716 in Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's "Ariodante", singing in her home city until 1725 in operas by Albinoni, the Gasparini brothers, Giacomelli, Leonardo Leo, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, the Pollarolos, father and son, and Leonardo Vinci, amongst others.