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Douglas Boyd opens the 20/21 season conducting performances of Fidelio for Garsington Opera, where he is Artistic Director: "[Boyd] seemed absolutely in his element, emphatically conveying the heights and depths of the score even in reduced form" (Opera News). The semi-staged production is also recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 26 September. Leading an outstanding cast in the...

The Edinburgh International Festival has reinvented itself in 2020 as an online event, with newly filmed videos of performances by, amongst others, Karen Cargill with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Søndergård. Karen’s performance of three Rückert-Lieder by Mahler was acclaimed by Richard Morrison in The Times for her ‘ravishing tone’. Ivan Hewett in the Daily Telegraph wrote: 'The video...

Karen Cargill returns to the DSO Berlin conducted by Robin Ticciati in November to sing a favourite role, Marguerite in Berlioz Damnation of Faust. Other season highlights include Elgar Sea Pictures with Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Sondergard and Bach B minor Mass with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin while, in opera, Karen will appear as Judith...

At the 2019 BBC Proms Markus Stenz conducts BBC NOW in Strauss, Brostroem & Brahms, Sunnyboy Dladla sings Mozart Requiem with BBC NOW with Natalie Stutzman, Hilary Summers sings Beethoven Symphony No.9 with BBC SO under Sakari Oramo, as well as Handel’s Jephtha with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Richard Egarr, Andrew Tortise sings Bach Cantatas with Solomon’s Knot, and Elizabeth Watts...

Karen Cargill returns to the Metropolitan Opera in April and May. Showcasing her versatility, she sings Mère Marie in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, and Erda in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Siegfried. This season also sees her in concert with Orquesta Nacional de España and David Afkham in Gurrelieder, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons in Bruckner Mass in F...