Karima (Lemghari) is a dutch R&B singer who started her carreer in the group Dignity who had hits with 'Talk With Me' & 'The Right Guy'. she released her debutalbum which is sang in dutch 'Belofte' in 2008, featuring the singles 'Wil voor je gaan' & 'Hold On Sister'.
Joyce DiDonato consistently earns ecstatic reviews wherever she sings. Among the world’s most charismatic performers, she is winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Award, among many other honors. “The buoyant progress of DiDonato’s career has been one of the happiest opera events of the past decade,” states Opera News magazine. Critics have called her technique “fearless” and described the range of her performing ability from “playful eroticism to imploding self-delusion to near-catatonic depression.”
Elīna Garanča (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. Born into a musical family in Riga, Garanča entered the Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 to study singing with Sergej Martinov. She continued her studies in Vienna with Irina Gavrilovici and in the United States with Virginia Zeani. Garanča began her professional career at the Südthüringisches Staatstheater in Meiningen and later worked at the Frankfurt Opera. In 1999 she won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki, Finland
Angelika Kirchschlager (born 1966 in Salzburg) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer. In a relatively short time, Angelika Kirchschlager became one of the most sought after mezzo-sopranos in the opera, recognized for her dramatic skills as well as for her singing. She has been heard on all of the major opera stages of the world and has performed interpretations of Lieder and Oratorios.
Faryl Smith - an ordinary schoolgirl with an extraordinary talent
On 31 May 2008, Faryl Smith's life changed dramatically when she sang her way into people's hearts and minds all over Britain during the final round of ITV's "Britain's Got Talent." One minute Faryl Smith was an ordinary schoolgirl from Northamptonshire who liked to sing in the choir, play football, and shop with her friends - the next minute Simon Cowell was praising her in front of a national television audience, calling her "literally one in a million" and "the most talented youngster I've ever heard."
Born in County Durham in 1963, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly was educated at Queen Margaret's School, York and then studied piano and singing at the Royal College of Music, of which she is now a Fellow. Connolly frequently plays male roles in opera.
Sarah Connolly is one of the foremost British mezzo sopranos. Sarah has performed in major opera houses around the world, such as La Scala,The Metropolitan Opera and Glyndebourne.
Olga Borodina is a leading dramatic mezzo-soprano, known for her roles in Russian operas at her home company, the Mariinsky Theatre, and for her international performing and recording career in a varied repertoire. Borodina made her debut in Samson and Delilah at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Placido Domingo. She performs frequently at the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera and many other opera houses in roles including La Cenerentola, Marguérite in La damnation de Faust, Eboli in Don Carlos...