About: Monica Groop

An Entity of Type: Person100007846, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Gerd Monica Groop née Riska (born 14 April 1958 in Helsinki) is a Finnish operatic mezzo-soprano. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she joined the Finnish National Opera in 1986 where she remains a member. She has sung leading roles as a guest artist with several important theatres internationally, including the Los Angeles Opera, the Palais Garnier, the Royal Opera, London, and the Salzburg Festival to name just a few. She has also recorded the complete songs of Edvard Grieg on BIS Records.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Gerd Monica Groop, geb. Riska (* 14. April 1958 in Helsinki), ist eine finnische Opernsängerin (Mezzosopran). (de)
  • Gerd Monica Groop es una mezzosoprano finlandesa nacida en Helsinki el 14 de abril de 1958. Como mezzo lírica, con incursiones al registro de contralto se destaca en repertorio barroco, clásico y en obras contemporáneas como las de la compositora Kaija Saariaho. Ha cantado en la Bayerische Staatsoper, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Salzburgo, Opera de Santa Fe, Royal Opera of Stockholm, Los Ángeles, Ámsterdam, Colonia, Paris, New York City Opera, Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Dresden Staatskapelle, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Deutsches Symphonieorchester, Wiener Symphoniker, Accademia di Santa Cecilia bajo la dirección de Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Roger Norrington, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph Eschenbach, Herbert Blomstedt, Kent Nagano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Paavo Berglund y Georg Solti. Se destaca en roles de mezzo lírica como Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera), Zenobia (Radamisto), Ruggiero (Alcina), Cyrus (Belshazzar), Carmen, Oktavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Der Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Charlotte (Werther), Mélisande (Pelleas et Mélisande), Ascanio (Benvenuto Cellini), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Varvara (Kátá Kabanova), Olga (Eugen Onegin), Lucretia (The rape of Lucretia), Pélérin (L´amour de loin), etc. (es)
  • Gerd Monica Groop née Riska (born 14 April 1958 in Helsinki) is a Finnish operatic mezzo-soprano. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she joined the Finnish National Opera in 1986 where she remains a member. She has sung leading roles as a guest artist with several important theatres internationally, including the Los Angeles Opera, the Palais Garnier, the Royal Opera, London, and the Salzburg Festival to name just a few. She has also recorded the complete songs of Edvard Grieg on BIS Records. (en)
  • Gerd Monica Groop, född 14 april 1958 i Helsingfors, är en finlandssvensk mezzosopran. Hon är dotter till diplomorganisten Astrid Riska. Hon debuterade som Charlotte i Massenets Werther 1987 och år 1989 kom hon till final i -tävlingen i Caerdydd. Groop uppträder i roller från flera Mozart-operor (Dorabella, Cherubino, Zerlina), R Strauss Ariadne, Debussys Mélisande, men även som rhendotter Wellgunde i Wagners Nibelungens ring. Hon är också uppskattad för sina solistuppträdanden och inspelningar av barockmusik, oratorier och Lieder. Hon har uppträtt på internationella operascener, bl.a. Neapel, Rom, Madrid, Toulouse, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Comique i Paris, Kungliga Operan, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Köln, New York City Opera. Hon tilldelades Pro Finlandia-medaljen 2005. (sv)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 29329643 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1082 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1106311643 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dct:subject
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Gerd Monica Groop, geb. Riska (* 14. April 1958 in Helsinki), ist eine finnische Opernsängerin (Mezzosopran). (de)
  • Gerd Monica Groop née Riska (born 14 April 1958 in Helsinki) is a Finnish operatic mezzo-soprano. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she joined the Finnish National Opera in 1986 where she remains a member. She has sung leading roles as a guest artist with several important theatres internationally, including the Los Angeles Opera, the Palais Garnier, the Royal Opera, London, and the Salzburg Festival to name just a few. She has also recorded the complete songs of Edvard Grieg on BIS Records. (en)
  • Gerd Monica Groop es una mezzosoprano finlandesa nacida en Helsinki el 14 de abril de 1958. Como mezzo lírica, con incursiones al registro de contralto se destaca en repertorio barroco, clásico y en obras contemporáneas como las de la compositora Kaija Saariaho. (es)
  • Gerd Monica Groop, född 14 april 1958 i Helsingfors, är en finlandssvensk mezzosopran. Hon är dotter till diplomorganisten Astrid Riska. Hon debuterade som Charlotte i Massenets Werther 1987 och år 1989 kom hon till final i -tävlingen i Caerdydd. Groop uppträder i roller från flera Mozart-operor (Dorabella, Cherubino, Zerlina), R Strauss Ariadne, Debussys Mélisande, men även som rhendotter Wellgunde i Wagners Nibelungens ring. Hon är också uppskattad för sina solistuppträdanden och inspelningar av barockmusik, oratorier och Lieder. Hon tilldelades Pro Finlandia-medaljen 2005. (sv)
rdfs:label
  • Monica Groop (en)
  • Monica Groop (de)
  • Monica Groop (es)
  • Monica Groop (sv)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License