Estonian mezzo Monika-Evelin Liiv in Royal Opera Young Artists Summer Concert

19.07.2009

The Jette Parker Young Artists including Estonian Monika-Evelin Liiv bring The Royal Opera Season to a thrilling close with their Summer Concert - a unique annual event in which all the Young Artists perform together. This year they will be joined by former Young Artist Rory Macdonald as conductor, Royal Opera principal Jeremy White as guest singer and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.

Monika-Evelin joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in September 2007 and made her Royal Opera debut as Flora La traviata, followed by Second Lady Die Zauberflöte and Mércèdes Carmen. She also understudied Olga Eugene Onegin and Dryad Ariadne auf Naxos. This season, she sang Second Maid Elektra, Ines Il trovatore, Lady Artist Lulu and Flora La traviata and understudied Giulietta Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Mary Der fliegende Holländer and Maddalena Rigoletto.

Her other opera roles include Voice from Above Parsifal, Serving Maid and Voice of Unborn Child Die Frau ohne Schatten for Finnish National Opera, Paulina The Queen of Spades and Third Lady Die Zauberflöte for Estonian National Opera. She has performed in concert in Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Sweden and Russia.

More information and tickets
http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=9436

Jette Parker Young Artists Programme
http://www.roh.org.uk/discover/thepeople/jpya/index.aspx