Aulikki Rautawaara

Terttu Aulikki Rautawaara (May 2, 1906, Vaasa — December 29, 1990, Helsinki) was a Finnish soprano.

She was famous for her interpretation of works by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius, including some of the first recordings of Sibelius made outside Scandinavia.

[1] She played the part of Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, in the first ever opera performed at the Glyndebourne festival (1934),[2] and continued to play a number of parts in operas staged in Glyndebourne in the 1930s.

In 1945, Jean Sibelius dedicated the Hymn to Thaïs to her.

[5] Aulikki Rautawaara was briefly married to the Finnish composer Erik Bergman, from 1956 to 1958,[6] that being her third marriage.