Merola 2013 participant Zanda Švede is a magnificent mezzo from Latvia. She has a calm, self-assured, friendly, no-nonsense mien, maintained even when she says something surprising.
Hear the BBC Proms' version of Gen. MacArthur's farewell: "The choir, the choir, the choir ..." in the intermission of the brilliant First Night at the Proms that opened the concert series on Friday.
