Sonya Yoncheva has been at home on the international opera stages for over ten years. Born in Bulgaria in 1981, the soprano first studied voice and piano in her hometown of Plovdiv before switching to the Geneva Conservatory for her master’s degree.In 2010, Yoncheva won the "Operalia" competition, further awards such as the ECHO Klassik in the category Newcomer of the Year (2015) as well as the Reader’s Prize of "The International Opera Awards" (2019), followed. Her engagements have taken the soprano to all the renowned houses of our time: the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, and the Opéra de Paris, to name but a few.Her multifaceted repertoire spans works from almost all eras - this demands a great deal of flexibility from the voice, but that is precisely the singer’s main secret, as she revealed in an interview with Oper! magazine. Among others, the soprano shone in the title roles in "Tosca", "Alcina", "L`incoronazione di Poppea", as well as Mimi ("La bohème"), Marguerite ("Faust") or Violetta ("La traviata").In addition to her stage activities, Sonya Yoncheva has released three successful solo albums exclusively on Sony Classical: "Paris, mon amour" (2015), "Händel" (2017) and "The Verdi Album" (2018).

Born south of Oslo, soprano Lise Davidsen (*1987) studied in her home country at the Grieg Academy in Bergen as well as at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen and attended various master classes. In 2012 she made her debut at the Royal Danish Opera. Since winning two competitions in 2015, Operalia and the Queen Sonja Competition, she has gone on to make high-profile debuts around the world, earning her Gramophone magazine’s Young Artist of the Year Award in 2018. The Royal Opera House London, La Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera, New York’s Metropolitan Opera as well as the festival stages in Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne are just a few of her stations. Davidsen has not only made a first-class reputation for herself among Wagnerians, but also shines in the great works of Strauss, Beethoven and Verdi as well as in the Lied repertoire - for example, together with the pianist Leif Ole Andsnes, whereby the repertoire of Grieg plays a central role again and again. Davidsen’s voice flows seemingly effortlessly from silky depths to jubilant highs - powerful and at the same time with an extremely fine feeling for the music. The artist is now exclusively signed to Decca.