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Metropolitan Opera soprano, Irina Rindzuner, was born in Russia. She is quickly establishing herself as one of the world’s most versatile and expressive sopranos. Ms. Rindzuner begins the 2009-2010 season as the title role of TURANDOT with the Teatro Municipal de Chile. Immediately following, Irina sang her first AMELIA at the PAC Center in New Jersey. Joining to the MET roster in the 2008-2009 season, as the cover of NEDDA in Pagliacci, Ms. Rindzuner also sang, with less than 24 hours notice, MINNIE in La Fanciulla del West with the L’Opera de Montreal. The debut was called a “stunning success” by the Montreal press. Ms. Rindzuner returned to L’Opera de Montreal for the prestigious December gala concert. Also in the 2008 season, Ms. Rindzuner sang MANON LESCAUT with the Utah Festival Opera, DESDEMONA in Otello with the Vero Beach Opera. As soloist with the New York City Ballet, Ms. Rindzuner sang the ballet piece, Russian Seasons, in London and Copenhagen. She collaborated often with star tenor, Marcello Giordani,in recital. In the 2007 season, Ms. Rindzuner made her New York City Opera debut as SANTUZZA, she also sang her first MANON LESCAUT to rave notices by famed critic, Clive Barnes. She has performed with equal success in the United States, as well as Europe, at companies such as the Tulsa Opera (USA), the Teatro di Casal Maggiore (Italy), Yekaterinburg Opera (Russia), New Jersey Verismo Opera (USA), and with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall, Mid-America Productions at Carnegie Hall, the Puerto Rico Symphony, the Silesian Philharmonic (Poland), and at the Khabarovsk Theater (Russia). Irina has won international vocal competitions in Italy (Monteverdi International Vocal Competition), Russia (First Opera International Vocal Competition) and been a finalist at the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists in Chicago, the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation in New York City and the Gerde Lissner Foundation.