NURMELA, KARI (, Viipuri), opera baritone.
Nurmela originally planned to become an economist but then studied voice in Helsinki with Olavi Nyberg from 1954 to 1956 and in Vienna with S. Radamsky and at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst. In the 1960s Nurmela sang with the operas of Detmold, Freiburg, and Braunschweig, and at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. Since 1970 he has been with the Zürich Opera. Nurmela has been a guest artist on many...