Hillevi Martinpelto

While her name could be problematic for some to keep in mind — and even pronounce — Hillevi Martinpelto has, since about 1990, produced a name for herself around the world’s key operatic stages, aswell as with its most prestigious concert halls. She’s scored success especially for her function in the operas of Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner. Having said that, her repertory options are wide and encompass very much else, including greatly disparate jobs in the operas of Weber, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Richard Strauss, Puccini, the little-known Swede Ivar Hallström, and many others. In concert she’s been a soloist in Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Beethoven’s Ninth, Brahms’ Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, different J.S. Bach cantatas, and far else. Martinpelto provides produced many recordings for different brands, including Philips, Archiv Produktion, EMI, Sterling, and many others. Hillevi Martinpelto was created in Dalecarlia, Sweden. She researched music on the Royal Swedish Academy of Music as well as the Royal Opera College, both in Stockholm. In 1987, the entire year of her graduation, she debuted on the Royal Opera Home in Stockholm performing Cho-Cho San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. She shortly appeared in various other essential operatic productions in Drottningholm (Royal Courtroom Movie theater) and Umea (Norrlands Operan). By the first ’90s, she was frequently appearing on the main opera homes in European countries, including at Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, Glyndebourne, and in the U.S. (LA and NY) and Japan. Her 1991 Elektra from Idomeneo and 1993 Countess from Le nozze di Figaro both drew high compliment, solidifying her qualifications in Mozart operas. Her 1994 documenting of Le nozze, on Archiv Produktion, under conductor John Eliot Gardiner, drew luxurious accolades. Over time Martinpelto spent some time working thoroughly with Gardiner and his famed ensembles, the Monteverdi Choir, British Baroque Soloists, as well as the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. In 1996 Martinpelto was asked, along with conductor Andrew Davis, to be a part of the music shows given on the Nobel Award ceremonies in Stockholm. With the switch of the brand new hundred years Martinpelto was a full-fledged worldwide star of both opera and concert levels. She has continued to be energetic on all fronts, trying as always to discover a affordable balance between looks in her homeland and the ones overseas. Among her later on recordings are two which have garnered worldwide acclaim: the 2005 Weber Oberon with John Eliot Gardiner on Philips as well as the 2006 Bach Mass in B small with Rene Jacobs on Berlin Classics.