MRM New
Signings
Viktor Rud
We
are pleased to announce the signing of the Ukrainian baritone Viktor
Rud
for General Management. Currently
a member of the Berlin Staatsoper Studio, this summer he will also join
the new Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival.
He
recently made his debut for Leipzig Opera as Schaunard La
Boheme and
in June will make his debut at La Scala, Milan as Mr Astley in
Prokofiev's The Gambler conducted
by Daniel Barenboim. Next
season he will sing Silvano Un Ballo in
Maschera, Morales Carmen and Zaretsky
Eugene
Onegin in Berlin.
MRM
Artists success in the press
Edgaras Montvidas/Die
Entführung/Netherlands
Opera
The
Lithuanian tenor Edgaras
Montvidas
(Belmonte) displayed an exceptional affinity for this music, with
splendid breath control and stylish phrasing. Montvidas is young and
handsome and his voice projects well; he should enjoy a splendid career
in this repertoire.
Michael
Davidson, Opera,May 2008
Mark Padmore/Schubert Song
Cycles/The Wigmore Hall
It
was breathtaking. Schubert couldn’t be better served
Fiona
Maddocks, Evening Standard, May 2008
In
the challenges of Schubert's most piercing dissonances and his most
existential tussles, these two certainly gave us everything we could
ask for
Niel
Fisher, The Times, May 2008
it
was astonishingly beautiful. Few singers can convey a feeling of
pure-hearted idealistic longing so intensely as Padmore
Ivan
Hewett, The Daily Telegraph, May 2008
Lukas Jakobski/Aci, Galatea E
Polifemo/London Handel Festival, Lawrence Cummings
with
the Polish bass Lukas
Jakobski
massive voiced and charismatic as the giant
Fiona
Maddocks, London Evening Standard, March 2008
Sally Matthews/Les
Illuminations/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski
With
her clear French, she gave Rimbaud’s poems a potent mix of seductive
beauty and hint of menace
Richard
Fairman, The Financial Times, April 2008
Another
discovery was the way in which Sally
Matthews soprano
has blossomed into a mature, sumptuous instrument. In Britten's Les
Illuminations she brought a glorious, liquid tone that washed over the
orchestral sound to lap at the back walls of the auditorium
Eric
Jeal, The Guardian, April 2008
Sally Matthews/Unsuk Chin: Alice
in Wonderland recording/Bayerische Staatsoper Munich
Sally
Matthews
is outstanding as the innocent, inquisitive Alice, centre stage and
masked throughout
Rick
Jones, The Times, April 2008
Karen Cargill/Das Lied von der
Erde/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles
the
high point was Von der Schönheit, in which the trilling delicacy of the
orchestration was matched by the unaffected charm of Karen
Cargill's
singing.
Rowena
Smith, The Guardian, April 2008
A
performance that harnessed all the emotional heat of Mahler's Bethge
settings, it owed much to Cargill's
succulent tone and effortless musicality
Kenneth
Walton, The Scotsman, April 2008
but
above all - and heartbreakingly in the final song - for the sheer ache
of mezzo Karen
Cargill's
long farewell, delivered with a tenderness that was shattering, and
accompanied with infinite sensitivity and flexibility by Runnicles
Michael
Tumelty, The Herald, April 2008
Andrew Foster-Williams/Tamerlano/Washington
National Opera
Andrew
Foster-Williams,
a young English bass-baritone, made his American stage debut in the
usually forgettable role of Leone and powered out his arias with
show-stealing force
Anne
Midgette, The Washington Post, April 2008
Andrew
Foster-Williams
applied a strikingly solid bass-baritone to Leone's single aria
Allan
Kozinn, New York Times
In
his solo scene, Andrew
Foster-Williams,
as Leone, nearly stole the performance with his healthy bass-baritone
and impressively secure coloratura
Tim
Smith, Baltimore Sun
Andrew
Foster-Williams
was a delightful surprise, nearly stealing the show with his brilliant
Act II aria
T
L Ponick, The Washington Times
MRM
Artist jumps in
Stephan Loges made
an unexpected, but welcome, return to the UK opera stage to
sing Mercutio in John Fulljames' new production for Opera
North of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
which opened on 17 May in Leeds (...Stephan
Loges in fine form wrote Hilary Finch in The Times....; Mercutio's
Queen Mab ballade was evocatively sung by Stephan Loges, Lynne Walker in the Independent)
with further performances in the UK
until 20 June. He will also sing Demetrius in the new Martin
Duncan production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's
Dream in Manchester on 12 June, and Woking on 19
and 21 June.
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Artists Forthcoming Highlights
Ingela Bohlin will
sing Mozart's C
Minor Mass at the Salzburg Festival on 21 August,
with the Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Katherine Broderick will
make her debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven's Mass
in C at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney on 21 June (joined
by Edgaras Montvidas and Andrew
Foster-Williams); will sing Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with
the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Winchester Cathedral on 4th July
and will return to the Proms on 11 August to sing the Young Lover in
Puccini's Il Tabarro (again joined by Edgaras
Montvidas as the other Young Lover)
Karen Cargill's festival appearances include
returning to the Proms on 3 August to sing Mahler's Das Lied
von der Erde with Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra, and to the Edinburgh Festival to sing in Honneger's
Le Roi David with the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra and Stephan Deneve on 11 Aug
Andrew Foster-Williams returns to the Mostly Mozart
Festival in London to sing Mozart's Requiem conducted
by Carlo Rizz
Lukas Jakobski makes
his debut at Drottningholm Slottsteater singing Antinoo,
Nettuno and Tempo in Monteverdi's Ulisses opening
on 26 July, with further performances on 30 July, 1, 3, 5, 7 and
9 August
Pär Lindskog will
make his debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid singing Albert Gregor in The
Markopoulos Case on 17 June with further performances on 22
and 29 June
Stephan Loges returns to the Edinburgh Festival
to sing Bill in Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City
of Mahagonny conducted by HK Gruber on 8 August
Sally Matthews returns
to Covent Garden to sing her first Anne
Truelove The Rake's Progress on 7, 9, 11, 14 and
18 July. Her Summer Festival appearances include both Queens in
Handel's Solomon at Bregenz Festival on 17 August
and Mozart's C Minor Mass on 23 August at the Mostly Mozart Festival in
New York
Mark Padmore sings a wide range of repertoire
this summer with Finzi's Dies Natalis and
Alec Roth's The Traveller at Salisbury Festival
on 31 May, Chelsea Festival on 18 June and Lichfield Festival on 8
July; Schubert's Winterreise with Paul Lewis at
the Lichfield Festival on 7
July, Theatre de Roanne in the Loire on 10
July, Buxton Festival on 14 July and Cheltenham Festival on 19 July;
makes his debut at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg with Till Fellner
and Schöne Müllerin on 16 June; sings Britten's War
Requiem in Copenhagen with the Danish National
Radio Symphony Orchestra on 26 July, and ends his summer activities
singing the Evangelist in Bach's St John Passion
at the Proms on 24 August with Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Fflur Wyn will
sing her first Pamina for Opera Holland Park on 28 June in a
new production by Simon Callow, conducted by Jane Glover, with further
performances on June 30 and July 2, 4, 6 8, 10, 12
Thomas Walker makes his debut with the Spanish
baroque orchestra Al Ayre Espagnol in Vigo on 10 June, singing
Giuliano in Handel's Rodrigo; sings Don Ramiro Cinderella
for Scottish Opera at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 31
July and 1, 2 August; and will return to the Proms
on 17 August to sing Beethoven Mass in C
with the City of London Sinfonia, and Richard Hickox