Krisztina Szabó is a Hungarian-Canadian

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...

opera singer who has performed in a number of operatic roles. A graduate of the

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, Szabó finished her postgraduate studies at the

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. She was awarded the Emerging Artist grant from the

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. Ms. Szabó was a 1997 winner of the Mozart Competition, held under the auspices of the

Canadian Opera Company The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest opera company in Canada and one of the largest producers of opera in North America. The COC performs at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performin ...

, and in 1998 she joined the Canadian Opera's Ensemble Studio. It was with the Canadian Opera Ensemble Studio that she sang the title role in Benjamin Britten's '' The Rape of Lucretia'', with which she made her European debut in Amsterdam.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Szabo, Krisztina Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Canadian women opera singers Canadian people of Hungarian descent Canadian operatic mezzo-sopranos