Ekaterina Semenchuk studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. She made her debut with the Mariinsky Opera in 2000 and has performed numerous roles with that company. Her international career has taken her to many of the world's leading opera houses, including The Royal O...

Dreisig studied singing at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, Paris, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig. She was a member of Berlin State Opera Studio 2015–17. During this time she sang Pamina and Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) for Berlin State Opera and also performed in oper...

Ermonela Jaho (born 1974) is an Albanian operatic soprano. She was described in The Economist as "the world’s most acclaimed soprano". The Financial Times said "Ermonela Jaho throws heart and soul into her singing... Don't even try to resist". The Guardian has described her as "one of the great v...

Austrian artist Eva Maria Neubauer does it all. The is an accomplished actress, singer and songwriter whose training includes studying at Schauspielschule Volkstheater Wien, Konservatorium der Stadt Wien and Musikschule der Stadt Wien.

Evelyn Herlitzius (born 27 April 1963) is a German opera singer, a dramatic soprano. She is known for performing major roles in works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, such as Brünnhilde, Isolde and Elektra, at the Semperoper, the Bayreuth Festival and leading European opera houses.

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin (born 10 October 1971) is a Russian concert pianist and composer. He became a British citizen in 2002 and an Israeli citizen in 2013. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has a wide repertoire and is especially known for his interpretations of the wor...

Florian Hoffmann is a social entrepreneur and founder of The DO School. He sits on the Supervisory Board of the World Future Council, and was named one of 100 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum in 2017. In 2018, he was one of 50 Germans to be featured in We:Deutschland by British ar...

Francesca Hayward (born 4 July 1992) is a Kenyan-born English ballet dancer and actress. She is a principal dancer in the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London. In 2019, she starred as Victoria the White Cat in the musical film Cats, an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name.

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Francesco Meli (born 15 May 1980 in Genoa) is an Italian operatic tenor particularly associated with the romantic repertoire. He began his vocal studies at age 17 with Norma Palacios at the Conservatorio di Musica "Niccolò Paganini" in Genoa. He later became a pupil of mezzo-soprano Franca Mattiu...

Fracois trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. From 2006-2016 Ballet Master Opernhaus, Zürich. He was one of the main Ballet Masters for the Zürich Ballet, assisting both Heinz Spoerli and later Christian Spuck in all of their creations. He has worked wit...

Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972), was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica. Born in Laurens, South Carolina and blind since infancy, Davis first performed professionally in the Piedmont bl...

Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st century ambassador for the cello. Performing internationally with many of the world's foremost conductors and instrumentalists, he is also founder and leader of the 'Classe d'Excellence de Violoncelle' at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and a passionate ambassa...

Giorgio Strehler was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director.

Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and passed away when Giorgio was only three. His maternal grandfather, Olimpio Lovrich, subsequently became hi...

Vick was born on 30 December 1953 in Birkenhead, the youngest son of Arnold and Muriel (née Hynes) Vick. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. At age 24, he directed a production of Gustav Holst's Savitri for the Scottish Opera, and became the company's director of prod...

Salenko was born and raised in Kiev, USSR. She has five siblings, and her parents worked in a restaurant. She started with gymnastics and folk dancing. When she was 12, her father took her to a ballet school. Though it was a late start, Salenko began to focus on ballet. In 1995, at age 14, she wa...

John Cox (born 12 March 1935) is an English opera director. Born in Bristol, he was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and trained at Glyndebourne as assistant to Carl Ebert, and then at the York Theatre Royal and BBC television, made his directing debut with Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges f...

John Richard Schlesinge (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for the same award for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday). Schlesinger's acting career beg...

Joyce DiDonato (née Flaherty; born February 13, 1969) is an American lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano.[2] She is notable for her interpretations of operas and concert works in the 19th-century romantic era in addition to works by Handel and Mozart.

She has performed with many of the world's leadin...

Julian Prégardien was born in Frankfurt in 1984 and received his earliest music training in the choirs of Limburg Cathedral. After studying in Freiburg and joining the academy of the Aix-en-Provence opera festival, he was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble from 2009 to 2013. At the same tim...

Jürgen Flimm (born 17 July 1941, in Gießen) is a German theater and opera director, and theater manager. After establishing himself as one of the exponents of Regietheater, Flimm was called to manage renowned theaters and festivals. His operatic productions in Germany led to an international care...

Kate Lindsey (born 1980) is a mezzo-soprano opera singer from the United States. Lindsey was born in Richmond, Virginia, and holds a Bachelor of Music Degree with Distinction from Indiana University. Her many awards include the 2007 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, the 2007 George London Award in me...

Kevin Conners studied at the Eastman School of Music in New York and at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1988 he became a member of the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera and two years later he was accepted into the local ensemble. Guest engagements have taken him as Monostatos ( The Magic Flute ...

Lauren Cuthbertson was born in Devon in 1984. She began studying dance at a local dance school run by Pamela De Waal (now the Buckingham Dance Studios in Paignton), becoming focused on classical ballet when she was offered a place on the Royal Ballet School's Junior Associate Programme. As a juni...

French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre was 20 when she was awarded a place on William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix Academy. In 2017 she was named Vocal Disovery at the Victoires de la Musique Classique Awards. She studied with Sara Mingardo in Venice and can also look back on a 12-year period...