Hillevi Martinpelto

Hillevi Martinpelto (born January 9, 1958 in Älvdalen) is a Swedish lyric soprano. She made her debut in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini in 1987. She is best known for her work with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir.[1] With Gardiner, she recorded Weber's Oberon and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Idomeneo, to considerable acclaim.[2]

Martinpelto performs at the 2005 Polar Music Prize ceremony.

In the summer of 2014 Martinpelto performed at Stålboga Summer Opera.[3]

Martinpelto's father is Finnish.[4]

Awards
gollark: Besides, caring deeply *and* spending lots of time on investigating stuff and whatever doesn't mean people will share your values.
gollark: But "care deeply" can mean that you feel very strongly about something like "people of the same gender MUST NOT EVER MARRY ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆA MY TRADITIONA L VALUES", not that you, I don't know, are interested in politics lots and know everyone involved in the government and follow all the parliamentary twitter feeds.
gollark: You see, lots of people are actually really stupid and/or have significantly different values.
gollark: Scarier possibility: what if the people voting for them DO care, a lot, and genuinely think that the people they vote for have better policy or something?
gollark: According to random vaguely plausible things on the internet, our strong reactions to politics are derived from the situation during human evolution, when humans were in small tribes and you could directly affect things and they could strongly and directly affect *you*.

References
  1. Biography on bach-cantatas.com
  2. Biography on Barnes & Noble
  3. Therése Norén (26 August 2013). "Opera på gång i paviljong" (in Swedish). Eskilstuna-Kuriren. Archived from the original on 2014-09-07. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  4. Eero Kestiä kantaesitetään Kouvolassa Archived 2016-09-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish) Kouvolan Sanomat
  5. http://www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt Swedish Royal Court official home page
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