Finnish mezzo-soprano Monica Groop has been recognised for her amazing versatility in a wide-ranging repertoire that spans baroque music through classical to contemporary and has performed in many of the world's leading opera houses and orchestras such as Covent Garden, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. She has worked with conductors as diverse as Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Roger Norrington, Ivor Bolton, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Christoph Eschenbach.