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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli
Italian singer
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Delores Ziegler
Delores Ziegler
American singer
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Susanne Mentzer
Susanne Mentzer
operatic singer (1957-)
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Francisco Araiza
Francisco Araiza
opera singer
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Speranza Scappucci
Speranza Scappucci
Italian conductor
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Robert Gambill
Robert Gambill
American singer
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Chris Merritt
Chris Merritt
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Roberto Abbado
Italian conductor
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Genia Kühmeier
Genia Kühmeier
Austrian singer and opera singer
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Eva Lind
Eva Lind
Austrian operatic soprano
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Helen Donath
Helen Donath
American soprano
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Cesare Siepi
Cesare Siepi
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Maria Grazia Schiavo
Maria Grazia Schiavo
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Montserrat Caballé
Montserrat Caballé
Spanish operatic soprano
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Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Italian bass-baritone
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Aleksandra Kurzak
Aleksandra Kurzak
Polish operatic soprano
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Karl Sollak
Karl Sollak
Austrian conductor
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Gundula Janowitz
Gundula Janowitz
Austrian opera soprano
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Wilma Lipp
Wilma Lipp
Austrian soprano
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Patrizia Ciofi
Patrizia Ciofi
Italian operatic soprano
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Steve Davislim
Steve Davislim
Australian singer, opera singer and hornist
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Carlo Colombara
Carlo Colombara
Italian opera singer
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Elīna Garanča
Elīna Garanča
Latvian operatic lyric mezzo-soprano
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Anna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko
Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano
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Michele Mariotti
Michele Mariotti
Italian conductor
Eva Mei
Italian operatic soprano

Eva Mei

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Italian operatic soprano
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Eva Mei (born 1967) is an Italian coloratura soprano.

Mei was born in Fabriano. She graduated from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. In 1990, at the Mozart Competition in Vienna, she won the Catarina Cavalieri Prize for her interpretation of Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Since her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1990, she has appeared in the other theatres of Europe and of the world, including: Berlin State Opera, Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan (1993), Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (1996), Salzburg Festival, Opera Nomori [fr] in Tokyo.

In 1994, she performed in Norma as Adalgisa alongside Jane Eaglen in the title role conducted by Riccardo Muti at the Ravenna Festival.

In February 2011, she starred in as Pamina in a new production of The Magic Flute premiered at the Vorarlberger Landestheater.

She has worked with the conductors Roberto Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta.

Mei's discography includes Don Pasquale, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, Tancredi, arias by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Handel's cantatas, and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.