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Birgit Finnilä

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Name
  
Birgit Finnila

Role
  
Contralto

Education
  
Royal Academy of Music


Albums
  
Symphonie Nr. 9, Der Messias (Messiah)

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Birgit Finnilä (born 20 January 1931) is a Swedish contralto and opera singer.

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Finnilä was born in Falkenberg, Sweden and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She made her operatic debut in Gothenburg in 1967. Though principally singing concert works, her operatic roles include parts in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Handel’s Flavio, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Wagner’s Ring cycle.

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Recordings

  • Baroque and Romantic Vocal Music BIS-CD-127, singing Sea Pictures by Sir Edward Elgar
  • Songs

    Juditha Triumphans - RV 644: I Arma - caedes - vindictae1995
    Juditha Triumphans - RV 644: II Agitata infido flatu1995
    R Strauss: Die Ägyptische Helena - Oper in zwei Aufzügen - original version - Act 1 - "Ihr grünen Augen"R Strauss: Die Ägyptische Helena · 2014

    References

    Birgit Finnilä Wikipedia