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Karen Cargill appears twice at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival singing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin followed by Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis in the closing concert of this year’s Festival.

Following his success in Ariadne auf Naxos last year, Sunnyboy Dladla was immediately invited back by the Edinburgh International Festival to take part in this year’s opening concert of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. Also appearing in Edinburgh, Karen Cargill sings Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by...

David Bates makes his conducting debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Handel’s Alcina at Glyndebourne and will return to Alcina during the 2022-23 season at both Staatsoper Hannover and Opéra de Rouen Normandie

Kieran Carrel sings Rinaldo in Haydn’s Armida at this year’s Bregenzer Festspiele before joining Deutsche Oper Berlin for a year where he makes his role debut as Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.

Mark Padmore performs Britten’s Les Illuminations with Ilumina, directed from the viola by Jennifer Stumm, at this summer’s Lucerne Festival, following on from singing the title role in Peter Grimes at the Endellion Summer Music Festival where he is currently Artistic Director.