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Cecilia Bartoli vince in Danimarca

Italian mezzo-soprano Bartoli wins Sonning prize

COPENHAGEN – Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has won Denmark's Sonning Music Prize.The award committee says Bartoli's "sound is unique, her technique has not been surpassed and her radiation on stage is like (opera legend Maria) Callas."The Leonie Sonning Music Foundation says Bartoli is "our days' great diva."The committee says in a statement released Wednesday that Bartoli will receive the 600,000 kroner ($110,000) award during a concert in Copenhagen on June 16, 2010.The prize is named after Leonie Sonning and has been awarded annually since 1959 to an internationally renowned composer, musician, conductor or singer.Previous winners include Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav Rostropovich, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniel Barenboim.

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