AskonasHolt have signed the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari, who has a qualification in surgery and medicine from the University of Padua. Originally from Riva del Garda, she started out playing flute before taking her Hippocratic oath to do no harm.
She will appear in Barber of Seville at Glyndebourne this summer.
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