Which Bulgarian operatic soprano had her career launched at Operalia, the World Opera Competition?
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Operalia, The World Opera Competition Operalia, The World Opera Competition is an annual international competition for young opera singers. Founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo, the competition has helped launch the careers of several important artists, such as Joseph Calleja, Giuseppe Filianoti, Rolando Villazón, José Cura, Joyce DiDonato, Elizabeth Futral, Inva Mula, Ana María Martínez and Sonya Yoncheva.
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Sonya Yoncheva Sonya Yoncheva (Bulgarian: Соня Йончева, born 25 December 1981) is a Bulgarian operatic soprano.
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Blanche Thebom Blanche Thebom (September 19, 1915March 23, 2010) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director. She was part of the first wave of American opera singers that had highly successful international careers. In her own country she had a long association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City which lasted 22 years. "Opera News" stated, "An ambitious beauty with a velvety, even-grained dramatic mezzo, Thebom was a natural for opera: she commanded the stage with the elegantly disciplined hauteur of an old-school diva, relishing the opportunity to play "femmes du monde" such as Marina in "Boris Godunov", Herodias and Dalila."
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Ruxandra Donose Ruxandra Donose (born in Bucharest) is a Romanian operatic mezzo-soprano.
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Diletta Rizzo Marin Diletta Rizzo Marin (born in Vicenza) is an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano admired for the quality of her voice and her skills in acting. She has appeared frequently at the Festival Internacional de Santander.
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Emma Juch Emma Johanna Antonia Juch (July 4, 1861 – March 6, 1939) was a popular soprano opera singer of the 1880s and 1890s from Vienna, Austria. She sang with several companies and later formed her own company.
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Maria Ilieva Maria Ilieva (Bulgarian: Мария Илиева ) is a Bulgarian singer and a producer. Ilieva was a judge on the first, second and third seasons of X factor (Bulgaria).
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Maria Maksakova Sr. Maria Petrovna Maksakova (Мария Петровна Максакова, née: Sidorova; April 8, 1902, Astrakhan, Russian Empire – August 11, 1974, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet opera singer, mezzo-soprano, a leading soloist in the Bolshoi Theater (1923–1953), who enjoyed great success in the 1920s and 1930s, in the times often referred to as the golden age of Soviet opera. Maria Maksakova, the three times laureate of the Stalin's Prize (1946, 1949, 1951), was designated as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971. The actress Lyudmila Maksakova is her daughter; singer and TV presenter Maria Maksakova Jr. her granddaughter.
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Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli, (] ; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music. She is known for having the versatility to sing soprano and mezzo roles.
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Elena Zelenskaya Elena Zelenskaya is a Russian soprano singer from the Bolshoi Theatre.
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Oliver Njego Oliver Njego (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливер Њего, ] ) is a Serbian operatic baritone, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most respected and most famous Serbian opera singers.
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Lyudmila Shemchuk Lyudmila Stepanivna Shemchuk (Russian Людми́ла Степа́новна Шемчу́к) (born 11 September 1946 at Styla, Donetsk Oblast, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Ukrainian operatic mezzo-soprano. She is an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1984).
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Milka Ternina Milka Ternina (née Katarina Milka Trnina, pronounced ] ; December 19, 1863 – May 18, 1941) was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses. Praised by audiences and music critics alike for the electrifying force of her acting and the excellence of her singing in both German and Italian works, her career was curtailed at its peak in 1906 by a medical condition which paralyzed a nerve in her face.
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Laura Pavlović Laura Pavlović (born in Skopje, Macedonia), is a lyric and spinto soprano opera singer, and a soloist with the Serbian National Theatre Opera in Novi Sad.
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Elise de Nys Kutscherra Elise de Nys Kutscherra was an operatic soprano.
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Eugenia Burzio Eugenia Burzio (13 June 1882 – 16 May 1922 – the dates on her grave ) was an Italian operatic soprano known for her vibrant voice and passionate style of singing. "There were legions of Burzio fans. One cannot imagine the following she had. People were hysterical about her." (Ester Mazzoleni).
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Guanqun Yu Guanqun Yu (; born 1982) is a Chinese soprano who has sung in opera houses and concert halls internationally. In 2008 she won the Belvedere International Singing Competition and in 2012 she placed 2nd in the Operalia, The World Opera Competition. She is particularly known for portraying heroines in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, and Giuseppe Verdi.
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Sofia Scalchi Sofia Scalchi (November 29, 1850 – August 22, 1922) was an Italian operatic contralto who could also sing in the mezzo-soprano range. Her career was international, and she appeared at leading theatres in both Europe and America.
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Maria Ewing Maria Louise Ewing (born March 27, 1950) is an American opera singer who has sung both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles. She is noted as much for her acting as her singing.
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Leo Marian Vodička Leo Marian Vodička (born 8 April 1950) is a Czech operatic tenor who has had an active international career since the early 1970s. He has sung on a number of complete opera recordings and appears in several filmed opera performances.
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Regina Resnik Regina Resnik (August 30, 1922 – August 8, 2013) was an American opera singer who had an active international career that spanned five decades. She began her career as a soprano in 1942 and soon after began a lengthy and fruitful relationship with the Metropolitan Opera that spanned from 1944 until 1983. Under the advice of conductor Clemens Krauss, she began retraining her voice in the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1953 and by 1956 had completely removed soprano literature from her performance repertoire.
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Cecilia Gasdia Cecilia Gasdia ] (born August 14, 1960, Verona) is an Italian operatic soprano.