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Tenor Gavan Ring returned to Opera North to sing arias by Lehár, Tosti and De Curtis in their New Year’s Viennese Concerts conducted by Paul Daniel, and will remain with the Company this spring to rehearse and cover Prologue & Quint Turn of the Screw and Sam Kaplan Street Scene. This follows a long relationship with Opera North as a...

In December Stuart Jackson received critical acclaim for his role debut as Jupiter in Handel’s Semele at the Komische Oper, Berlin: … le Jupiter de Stuart Jackson, nous a gratifié d’un des plus beaux moments de la soirée : son « Where’re you walk » possédait l’élégie, la douceur et la sentimentalité requises. Ce géant à la stature imposante figurait parfaitement le dieu...

Robin Johannsen makes her debut with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia performing Haydn Die Schöpfung with Manfred Honeck – a piece she revisits later this season in her debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Philippe Herreweghe. Further notable debuts this season include with Wiener Symphoniker for Bach Magnificat in D (Philippe Jordan), the Arion Ensemble in...

James Way makes his debut for Opéra national de Montpellier reprising the role of Tempo in Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno under Thibault Noally, following a highly successful tour of the work last season with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs. Also this season James sings Messiah tours with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, with...

Ruby Hughes makes her recital debut for Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam in a programme of Schumann, Mahler, Ives and Britten, with pianist Joseph Middleton. Later this year the same repertoire will feature on their second recital disc together, along with a commissioned song cycle ‘Bright Travellers’ by Helen Grime, for BIS Records. Also adding to her growing discography this season she...