Leonidas Kavakos (born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation scholar. He has also recorded for reco...

Elisabeth Batiashvili (born 7 March 1979), professionally known as Lisa Batiashvili, is a prominent Georgian violinist active across Europe and the United States. A former New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence, she is acclaimed for her "natural elegance, silky sound and the meticulous grace o...

He was the director of the most recent version of Tosca, by Puccini, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Both the opera, as well as the director, were greeted by loud boos on opening night, 21 September 2009.The reception was generally negative. James Levine, the music director at the Metropol...

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Malena Ernman is a Swedish opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Ernman represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow.

Ernman was born in Upps...

Manlio Benzi studied at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma. In 1991 he also graduated with first class honours at the University of Arts in Parma and studied at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, serving as assistant to Carlo Felice Cillario.

In 1990 he founded the Erlebnis Chamber Orches...

Marcel Beekman (born 3 September 1969) is a Dutch operatic tenor currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Born in Zwolle, Beekman sang as a boy soprano and studied singing with Frauke Vonk. His first recording appeared in 1979. In 1993 he completed his vocal studies at the Conservatory in Z...

Marcelo Raúl Álvarez (born February 27, 1962) is an Argentine lyric tenor who achieved international success starting in the mid-1990s.

Álvarez travels widely, performing with top singers in major opera houses and concert halls around the world. Since the beginning of his career in 1994, he has ...

Crebassa grew up in Agde, where her parents encouraged her interest in music, starting with piano and continuing when she was 14 with singing. She continued her music education at the music conservatory in Sète. At the conservatory in Montpellier, she studied musicology, voice and piano. Whilst a...

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Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor and violinist. She is currently music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as well as, chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Ravinia Festival. In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosoph...

Martin Fröst (born 14 December 1970) is a Swedish clarinetist and conductor. He is principal conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. He is also a developer of multimedia projects with music, choreography and light design, in which he appears as a clarinetist, conductor, copywriter and "master...

After studying musicology in Nice, tenor Mathias Vidal studied singing and joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where he graduated in 2003. At the same time, he sang in the chorus of the Paris Opera as well as a few supporting roles at the Théâtre de Compiègne, then he...

Matthew Rose (born 4 May 1978 in Seaford, near Brighton, UK) is an English operatic bass. Matthew Rose studied at Seaford College and the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. In 2003 he joined the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has performed at many of the...

Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (born 20 August 1974) is a Russian-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him “one of the greatest violinists in the world.” He sang in his mother's choir from the age of three. He began studying the violin at age 5 with Galina Turchanin...

Michael Barenboim lets music, in its diverse and enduring ways, speak for itself through his violin. Born in Paris and brought up in Berlin, with studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Theater Rostock under Axel Wilczok and at L’Université Paris-Sorbonne in philosophy, Barenboim...

Michele Mariotti, born in 1979 in Urbino, near Pesaro, is an Italian conductor, the direttore musicale since 2014 of Teatro Comunale di Bologna. A graduate in composition of Pesaro's Conservatorio Rossini, where he also studied orchestral conducting, he made his professional opera debut with Il b...

Mick Morris Mehnert was born in Berlin in 1996. He has American roots and speaks fluent German and English. Having taken part in various school productions, he discovered a passion for acting at an early age. This year, he completed his drama diploma at the Schauspielschule Charlottenburg. Mick h...

Mika Kares (born 1 November 1978) is a Finnish operatic bass in opera and concert who made an international career. He was first based at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and went on to the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, and the Seattle Opera, amon...

Nelson José Pinto Freire (18 October 1944 – 1 November 2021) was a Brazilian classical pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his generation, he was noted for his "decorous piano playing" and "interpretive depth". His extensive discography for labels such as Sony Classical, Teldec, ...

Nikolaus Habjan (born September 24, 1987, in Graz ) is an Austrian director, puppeteer and artistic whistler. Nikolaus Habjan grew up in Graz and attended the BRG Carneri here. From 2006 to 2010 he studied musical theater directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

In 2003,...

Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt or historically Johann Nikolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a clas...

Imai began her musical training at the age of six. She began studying at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and switched to viola there. Then she went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in ...