Monika Evelin Liiv, mezzo soprano, was born in Estonia where she began her vocal studies. She was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artist Program of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Her repertoire included the Second Lady and the Third Lady in Die Zauberflote (Mozart), Cornelia in Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Handel), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Flora in La traviata (Verdi), Lady Artist in Lulu (Berg), Ines in Il trovatore (Verdi), Maddalena in Rigoletto (Verdi), Olga in Yevgeni Onegin (Tchaikovsky), Mercedes in Carmen (Bizet) and other roles at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as well as in opera houses in France, Finland,  Lithuania, Sweden and Estonia.