New release Sweet Rapture and Heartache includes 12 of the most beloved opera arias for soprano. Arias are performed by a rising Finnish soprano star Marjukka Tepponen and the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra conducted by maestro Alberto Hold-Garrido. Marjukka Tepponen, winner of the Timo Mustakallio Competition in Savonlinna in 2008, went on to take the first prize in the national Lappeenranta Singing Competition in January 2010. She has been a soloist with most of the main Finnish orchestras, and abroad with, for example, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester. In 2010 she made her debut at the Finnish National Opera, the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Graz Opera in Austria. In summer 2015 she makes her debut at the Bregenz Festival as Liù in Turandot.