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Joanna Harries – Debut recording release

The debut album from mezzo soprano Joanna Harries, Letters from Scandinavia, is released today by CRD Records. 

The album, with pianist Sholto Kynoch, features Swedish, Norwegian & Finnish songs by Backer Grøndahl, Grieg, Munktell, Netzel, Sibelius & Stenhammar, interwoven with 19th century travel writing & musical soundscapes by Peter Facer. It is available both as CD or download from the usual streaming platforms.

Joanna and Sholto will also be performing it live in the opening recital of the Oxford International Song Festival on 10 October.

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Oxford International Song Festival

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New Artist – Jonah Halton

We are delighted that British tenor Jonah Halton has joined our artist roster for general management. Jonah is a recent graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied under the tutelage of Amanda Roocroft.

In the current season he makes his Irish debut as Garcia La tragédie de Carmen (Wexford Festival Opera); and Annibale/Marco (cover) The Gondoliers (English Touring Opera).

His most recent highlights include Bob Evert/Kinch Jonathan Dove’s Itch (Opera Holland Park Young Artist); Frederic (cover) The Pirates of Penzance (English National Opera); and Second Attendant in Harbison’s A Full Moon in March (Royal Ballet & Opera).

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Jonah Halton

SO-Gondoliers

Mark Nathan – The Gondoliers

Mark Nathan performs Giuseppe in Scottish Opera’s production of The Gondoliers, recently released by Opus Arte on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Stuart Maunder’s production featured in Scottish Opera’s 2021/22 season and is conducted by Derek Clark.

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Mark Nathan

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Opus Arte

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Mark Nathan – Utopia, Limited

Mark Nathan sings Mr Goldbury on Scottish Opera’s new recording of Gilbert and Sullivan’s peniultimate opera, Utopia, Limited. This revised version with updated libretto by director Stuart Maunder and a revised musical version by Scottish Opera’s former Head of Music Derek Clark, was recorded following performances in the 2021/22 season.

The recording will be released by Opus Arte on 27 June 2025 and will be available from retailers including Presto Music, Europadisc, Naxos Direct and Amazon, as well as on the usual streaming platforms.

 

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Mark Nathan

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Opus Arte

Palau de les Arts

Alison Kettlewell to make her Spanish debut at Les Arts

Alison Kettlewell makes her Spanish debut next season in Valencia at the at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. She will perform Madame Larina in Laurent Pelly’s production of Eugene Onegin, under the baton of Timur Zangiev. 

This is Alison’s third production as Larina and follows acclaimed performances for Scottish Opera (2018) and the Royal Ballet & Opera (2024).

 

“Alison Kettlewell’s rich mezzo a treat as Madame Larina.”
(Bachtrack)

“Alison Kettlewell’s touching Madame Larina…”
(The Times)

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Alison Kettlewell

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English National Opera

Artists announced in English National Opera’s 2025/26 season

Following English National Opera’s season announcement for 2025/26…

Ronald Samm and Gweneth Ann Rand return to ENO as Father Grenville and Kitty Hart in Anniliese Miskimmon’s new production of Jake Heggie’ Dead Man Walking, conducted by Kerem Hasan. This unmissable new production marks the 25th anniversary since the work was premiered at San Francisco Opera. Camilla Roberts understudies the role of Kitty Hart.

Trevor Eliot Bowes returns to ENO as Dick Deadeye and Rhonda Browne makes her company debut as Buttercup in the of first revival Cal McCrystal’s production of HMS Pinafore, conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren.

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Trevor Eliot Bowes

Rhonda Browne

Gweneth Ann Rand

Camilla Roberts

Ronald Samm

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Opera North

Artists announced in Opera North’s 2025/26 season

Delighted to announce three of our artists will appear in Opera North’s 2025/26 season.

Following acclaimed performances as Queen of the Night this season, Nazan Fikret returns to Opera North as First Niece in Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Peter Grimes. Additonally, Binny-Supin Yang joins Opera North covering this role.

Making his company debut Mark Nathan joins the Opera North Youth Chorus and Youth Orchestra as Count Heinrich in Judith Weir’s historical comic thriller, The Secret of the Black Spider. Following that he returns as The Banana in David Fennessy’s Pass the Spoon, a sort-of opera about cookery – a darkly comic feast of words, music and puppetry, made with decidedly adult ingredients. Mark will then understudy the role of Ned Keene in Peter Grimes.  

Making her company debut Lauren Young is the mezzo soloist in The Big Opera Mystery – a family show and musical extravaganza where some of the suspects  are some of the greatest opera characters of all time.

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Nazan Fikret

Mark Nathan

Binny-Supin Yang

Lauren Young

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Opera North

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New Artist – Felix Kemp

We are delighted that British baritone Felix Kemp has joined our artist roster for general management. Felix is a former Britten Pears Young Artist, Momentum Emerging Artist, finalist at the 2021 London Handel International Singing Competition, and in the 2022/23 season made his debut at the Royal Ballet & Opera in Don Carlo.

In the current season he covers Marcello La bohème for English National Opera; performs Belcore L’elisir d’amore for Celebrate Voice; and joins the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company as Strephon Iolanthe and Florian Princess Ida. Concerts include Zelenka Lamentations with Ensemble Diderot at the Opéra de Rouen and Kölner Philharmonie; Vaughan Williams Serenade for Music with Outcry Ensemble; and Verdi Requiem at York Minster.

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Felix Kemp

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BBC Proms

Ronald Samm to perform at the BBC Proms

In Shostakovich’s anniversary year, Ronald Samm performs Shabby Peasant in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk as part of the BBC Proms 2025.

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of English National Opera and BBC Singers, in this semi-staged performance at the Royal Albert Hall on 1 September.

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Ronald Samm

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New Artist – Binny-Supin Yang

We are delighted that Korean soprano Binny-Supin Yang has joined our artist roster for general management. Binny is currently in her second year of the Royal Academy Opera course, where she studies with Mary Nelson and Jonathan Papp.

In 2025, Binny joins the Leeds Song Young Artist Programme and is a semi-finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Award. Later this season she performs First Niece Peter Grimes for British Youth Opera.

For Royal Academy opera she has performed rols including Königin der Nacht Die Zauberflöte, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Emmie Albert Herring, Dalinda Ariodante, Madame Herz Der Schauspieldirektor, and opera scenes as Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Binny has performed in concert venues across Korea and the UK, including the Korea Cultural Centre UK, Kumho Art Hall Yonsei and Wigmore Hall.

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Binny-Supin Yang

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English Touring Opera

Artists announced in ETO’s autumn 2025 season

In English Touring Opera’s newly announced autumn 2025 season:

Timothy Nelson returns as Belcore in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, directed by Martin Constantine and conducted Alice Farnham.

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Trevor Eliot Bowes returns as Collatinus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Robin Norton-Hale and conducted by Gerry Cornelius.

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Trevor Eliot Bowes

Timothy Nelson

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