From April 13 to May 7, mezzo-soprano Monika-Evelin Liiv will sing in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il trovatore at Royal Opera House. The opera is directed by Elijah Moshinsky and conducted by Carlo Rizzi, the leading roles will be played by Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sondra Radvanovsky, Małgorzata Walewska and Walter Fraccaro.
Monika-Evelin Liiv graduated from Georg Ots Tallinn Music School (2001) and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2007). In addition, she has attended courses at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, the Mariinsky Theatre Young Singers Summer Academy in Mikkeli and and master classes with Irina Gavrilovic, Maria Acda, Larissa Gergieva, Hartmut Höll, Maria Cleva, Vladimir Atlantov and Jeffrey Goldberg. She won third prize in the Mart Saar Song Competition in 2002 and second prize in the Studio Bel Canto Vocal Competition in Malmö in 2006. From 2003 to 2007 Monika-Evelin Liiv sang in Finnish National Opera Choir. Since 2005 Dmitri Pavlov has been her main performing partner and they have given concerts in Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Sweden and Russia.
Monika-Evelin Liiv joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in September 2007 and made her Royal Opera debut as Flora in La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, followed by role of Second Lady in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Ines in Verdi’s Il trovatore.
Aveli Kadastik