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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...

MRM Artists celebrate a return to the stage this summer as restrictions on live performances are lifted around the globe. Against all the odds, a wave of creativity has sparked new opportunities for conductors, soloists and orchestras to make music together. Mark Padmore joins pianist Mitsuko Uchida for a performance of Franz Schubert’s great Winterreise, as part of the Wigmore...

The winners of the 2020 BBC Music Magazine Awards include MRM Artists soprano Carolyn Sampson, and tenors James Way and Edgaras Montvidas. The awards celebrate the best of classical music recordings and are chosen by shortlist and popular vote. The Recording of the Year and the Opera Award go to the Signum Classics release of Purcell’s King Arthur, featuring Carolyn...

MRM Artists enjoyed successes across Europe throughout March, right up to the final curtain close before the COVID-19 lockdowns began, with several notable highlights. Jette Parker Young Artist Michael Mofidian “stood out as the finished Handelian article” (Opera Magazine) in his roles as Chelsias/Judge for the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre’s production of Handel's Susanna. Jordan de Souza “conducted the...

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...