Opera singer Ritva Auvinen has died

Opera singersoprano Ritva Auvinen has died. The actor confirms the information to HS Blue Sokka. Auvinen was Soka’s aunt.

Auvinen was 93 years old when he died. He was born in 1932 in the village of Kuokkaniemi near Sortavala in Laatoka Karelia. Like many other Karelians, he had two trips to the evacuees.

Kuopus of a Karelian family with nine children graduated in 1956 as a gymnastics teacher, but soon headed for an opera career. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in his thirties between 1962 and 1965 and took private lessons in the same years From Mirjam Helinwhom he later considered his most important teacher.

In his career, Auvinen sang more than 50 opera roles in, among others, the Finnish National Opera, the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Ilmajoki Music Festival.

His breakthrough role is considered The last temptations Riga. Joonas Kokkonen composed by a revival leader SpongeBob Ruotsalainen the premiere of the opera about life was in 1975, and it was performed not only at the National Opera, but also at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

In addition to his own singing career, Auvinen worked as a singing teacher at, among others, the Sibelius Academy. Auvinen was awarded the Pro Finlandia medal in 1979 and the Savonlinna Opera Festival Key in 2012.