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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...

In November Katherine Broderick will make her debut with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra singing Brünnhilde Die Walküre with Jaap van Zweden in a cast to include Thomas Johannes Mayer and Stuart Skelton. The remainder of the season will see Katherine appear in the title role Ariadne auf Naxos and Alice Ford Falstaff for Opéra National de Montpellier, and return...

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...

Following a notable performance as Elsa in Lohengrin in 2016, Katherine Broderick returned to Opéra de Montpellier this month to sing her first Isolde, prompting the French Opéra Magazine to write "…et, surtout, en prise de rôle, révélation d'une Isolde d'une jeunesse, d’un rayonnement et d'une puissance irrésistibles …and especially, making her role debut, she reveals an Isolde of irresistible...