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During their first tour with Noche Escandinava, in May - June 2002, Tarja Turunen sang in company of Marjut Paavilainen (Finnish mezzo-soprano), Ingvild Storhaug (Norwegian mezzo-soprano) and Izumi Kawakatsu (Japanese pianist), with whom she visited Santiago de Chile (Chile), where they played at Cinearte Tobalaba on May 29; and Buenos Aires (Argentina), where they performed at Teatro Margarita Xirgu on June the 1st. During the tour they played songs from the Scandinavian, German and Austrian art, among which we may find Ture Rangström"s (Sweden), Sigurd von Koch"s (Sweden), Jean Sibelius" (Finland), Edvard Grieg"s (Norway), Leevi Madetoja"s (Finland) y Oskar Merikanto"s (Finland), Hugo Wolf "s (Austria), Gustav Mahler"s (Austria), Johannes Brahms" (Germany), Richard Strauss" (Germany), Manuel de Falla"s (Spain) and Felix Mendelssohn"s (Germany) compositions. The occasion was sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, the Embassy of Finland, the Center of Culture and Information of the Embassy of Japan, the Embassy of Germany in Argentina, the Embassy of Sweden, the Government of Buenos Aires- Secretary of Culture, Open Opera, Fundamús and the House of the Opera. In this case, the tour included Santiago de Chile (Chile), where they played at Centro Comercial Omnion on April 22nd; Buenos Aires (Argentina) with a show at Teatro Margarita Xirgu on April 24th; Brazil, with two shows, one in Porto Alegre, at Teatro de AMRG, on April 28th, and the other at Teatro das Artes/Eventos on May 1st; and, finally, at the Auditorium Hall, National Museum of Art, Bucharest (Romania). The Embassy of Finland, the Ministry of Culture of Finland and the Center of Culture and Information of the Embassy of Japan sponsored this tour.