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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...

Hilary Summers takes on the roles of White Queen and Dormouse in the first fully staged production of Gerald Barry Alice’s Adventures Under Ground at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Thomas Adès and directed by Antony McDonald. Further highlights of the season include Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko; George Benjamin’s Into...

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...