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Soile Isokoski
Finnish opera singer (born 1957)
Soile Marja Isokoski (born 14 February 1957) is a Finnish lyric soprano, active in opera, concert works and lieder.
Life and career
Isokoski was born in Posio, Finland.
She graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (a cantor-organist diploma, a singing teacher's degree and a singing diploma) and made her concert debut there in 1986.[1]
Isokoski won the Lappeenranta song competition in Finland (1987), the Elly Ameling Competition in the Netherlands (1988), and the Tokyo International Singing Competition (1990).
In 1987 she was a finalist in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
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She worked first as a church musician in Northern Finland. In 1987 she was engaged as a soloist with the Finnish National Opera and stayed there until 1994. Her first appearance there was as Mimi in Puccini's La bohème in 1987.
Isokoski has sung at all the leading opera houses in Europe, including the Vienna State Oper