Exotic Puerto Rican soprano Scheherazade Pesante is making her London debut. “Now in her mid-thirties, Pesante approached opera back to front. Last year, she sang Carmen for the semi-professional AAC opera. She is about to start her fourth year of vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music (conveniently situated next door to her flat), and harbours a yearning to sing Violetta in La Traviata. Before this, however, she spent a couple of riotous decades in cabaret and fringe theatre in New York, interspersed with bouts as a female wrestler, an artist’s model and a part-time truck driver delivering Heinz ketchup.”