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French mezzo-soprano Marie-Juliette Ghazarian, born in Paris, began her musical training at six, first studying harpsichord before turning to voice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she graduated with a Master’s degree with Great Distinction in 2022. She was a member of La Monnaie’s MM Academy, working with conductors including Evelino Pidò, Kazushi Ōno and Alain Altinoglu, and is currently an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. A prizewinner in several Belgian competitions, she made her stage debut in John Adams’ I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky. Her recent appearances include Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), and performances at La Monnaie, Opéra de Metz and Bozar. Highlights include the solo opera Goud! and the world premiere of Fanny and Alexander. Upcoming engagements include L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Elektra, Medusa and La Cenerentola.
Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is a globally sought-after artist, performing regularly with top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, and London Symphony, and at major festivals such as Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and Lucerne. Equally acclaimed on the opera stage, she has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Scala, Bayreuth, Berliner Staatsoper, and Paris Opera, with signature roles including Fricka, Sieglinde, Waltraute (The Ring Cycle), Kundry (Parsifal), Amneris (Aida), Eboli (Don Carlos), Dido (Les Troyens), and Jocaste (Oedipus Rex). She also created the Shaman in Tan Dun’s The First Emperor at the Met.
A multi-Grammy award-winning recording artist, her discography spans Wagner, Mahler, Berlioz, and more, including Les Troyens, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, and Das Lied von der Erde. She recently founded Ensemble Charité, supporting charities while mentoring young musicians through chamber music performances. Her current season includes appearances with the Sydney Symphony, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Belgium National Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and the Met’s special Verdi Requiem for 9/11’s 20th anniversary.
Born in Bolzano, she graduated from the “Claudio Monteverdi” Conservatory in her city in singing and piano, later perfecting her skills at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She made her debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto as the protagonist in Rossini’s Signor Bruschino and later at the Teatro alla Scala in the role of Pierotto in Linda di Chamounix conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni.
He has sung in the major theatrical institutions of the world, among which are the Teatro alla Scala, Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and in some important festivals, including the Bregenz Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Spoleto Festival and those of Wiesbaden and Dresden.
During his career he has collaborated with important conductors such as Bruno Bartoletti, Gabriele Ferro, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Carlo Maria Giulini, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Georges Prêtre and Mstislav Rostropovich.
He was part of the Piccolo Teatro “Collegium Musicum Italicum” in Rome with the famous ensemble of the “Virtuosi di Roma”, participating as protagonist in numerous tours in the USA, Canada, Japan, Spain, Russia, with a repertoire of works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Among his greatest successes are the interpretations of Cavalleria Rusticana and Les Troyens at the Teatro alla Scala, Falstaff at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta, at the Frankfurt Opera, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, at the Opéra National de Lyon, at the Opéra de Nantes and at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Andrea Chénier at the ROH Covent Garden in London and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Cavalleria Rusticana at Covent Garden in London, at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at the Opéra National de Paris, Andrea Chénier at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and at the Frankfurt Opera, Gianni Schicchi and The Turn of the Screw at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Il Tabarro at the Arena di Verona and at the Liceu in Barcelona, Eugene Onegin and The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Saul and The Nose at the Rome Opera, The Return of Ulysses in homeland in Antwerp and Zurich, Der Filiegende Hollaender at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
During the seasons from 2018 to 2020, we would like to point out Andrea Chénier at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Cavalleria Rusticana at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Lakmé at the Royal Opera House in Muscat.
He opened the 2020 season performing Cavalleria Rusticana at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona. He then sang Il Trittico at the Teatro de la Monnaie in Brussels; Cavalleria Rusticana at the ROH Covent Garden in London; Siberia at the Teatro Real de Madrid. He begins 2023 with Evgenij Onegin at the Oper Frankfurt, followed by “Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria” in Geneva, Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, Madama Butterfly at the Arena di Verona, Evgenij Onegin at the Liceu in Barcelona. He begins the 2023-24 season with Cavalleria Rusticana at the ROH Covent Garden in London, at the Opéra de Monte Carlo and Teatro alla Scala in Milan, then returns to the ROH Covent Garden in London for Andrea Chénier; in Turin for Il Trittico at the Teatro Regio.
Among his upcoming engagements: from now until 2026 we point out: Les Dialogues des Carmélites and Evgenij Onegin at the Frankfurt Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the Teatro Real in Madrid, Lakmè at the Teatro Real de Madrid, Jenufa at the ROH Covent Garden in London, Il Trittico at the Palau de la Musica Reina Sofia in Valencia and others.
Among his rich recording production (RCA, Cynus, ERI) we can mention Il Flaminio (Giustina) by Pergolesi (Fonit Cetra), Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica by Puccini conducted by Antonio Pappano (Emi).
A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (First-Class Honours), and the Royal College of Music (Master’s of Music with Distinction), she is an Opera Prelude Artist, an artist on the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange programme, an Oxford International Song Young Artist 2024/2026, a Samling Artist, a Shipston Song Rising Star and a Britten Pears Young Artist.
Her Awards include the Loveday Song Prize at the 2025 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, The Nigel Beale First Prize and Anthony Lowrey Audience Prize at the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year and First Prize and Best Duo Prize with Archie Bonham at the 2024 Ashburnham English Song Competition.
She is a former 2023/24 Opera Holland Park Young Artist, where she sang Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia, and joins the 2025 Verbier Festival to sing La Ciesca Gianni Schicchi.
During her first season at The Royal Opera House, she will sing Second Lady Die Zauberflöte and Flora Bervoix La traviata on the Main Stage, as well as Irina in Elena Langer’s Four Sisters and Julia in Elizabeth Maconchy’s The Departure in The Linbury Theatre.
Mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy recently graduated from the Royal College of Music (RCM), where she studied with Amanda Roocroft and Caroline Dowdle. She is currently a member of the Opernstudio at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Annabel has been a Young Artist with Opera Prelude, Samling Institute, Britten Pears Arts, and Glyndebourne’s Jerwood scheme. At Garsington Opera, she performed Juno (Platée) and covered Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro). Her operatic roles include Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Minsk Woman (Flight), and L’enfant (L’enfant et les sortilèges) at RCM, and covering Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Glyndebourne. Recent awards include second prize at the IVC Opera & Oratorio Competition, the Singers’ Prize at the ROSL Music Competition, and Press & Junior Jury Prizes at the IVC LiedDuo Competition.
Winner of the 70th Kathleen Ferrier awards, contralto Lily Mo Browne currently studies at the Royal College of Music in London under Ben Johnson and Caroline Dowdle, supported by the Drake Calleja Trust as well as the Robert Lancaster and Helen Majorie Tonks scholarships. She has achieved notable success in competitions, placing first at the Somerset Song Prize and the AESS Senior Song Prize, second in the RCM English Song Final, and third in both the Junior Ferrier competition and the RCM Schumann Competition. Operatic roles include Second Witch (Dido and Aeneas), Old Lady (Candide), Zweite Dame and Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), and La Regina (La bella dormente nel bosco). Lily has also performed as a concert soloist in Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with Martyn Brabbins and the RCM Symphony Orchestra, and in Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony with the Hounslow Symphony Orchestra.
After studying psychology, Hanna Schwarz began her vocal training at the Hanover Academy of Music, where she also made her operatic debut as Sigrune in Wagner’s Die Walküre. After winning a singing competition in Berlin, she was engaged by the Hamburg State Opera.
In 1975, she made her Bayreuth debut, where she achieved an international breakthrough as Fricka in the Chéreau/Boulez Ring. In the following years, Hanna Schwarz also performed at Bayreuth in the roles of Erda, Brangäne, and Waltraute.
An international career followed, leading her to the world’s major stages, collaborating with renowned conductors. She participated in
Hanna Schwarz also excels on the concert stage. She has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Europe’s and America’s most prestigious venues, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonies, the Vienna Musikverein, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, to name but a few.
She has also participated in numerous radio concerts and recordings, performing Das Lied von der Erde, Gurrelieder, symphonies and lieder by Gustav Mahler, as well as Verdi’s Requiem under the baton of conductors such as Böhm, Ozawa, Levine, Mehta, Sinopoli, Maazel, Sawallisch, Dohnanyi, and Bernstein. The artist has also distinguished herself through her interpretations of contemporary music, performing works by Maurizio Kagel, Hans Werner Henze, Pierre Boulez, Alfred Schnittke, and Leonard Bernstein.
Her recent projects include new productions of Dialogues of the Carmelites and The Queen of Spades in Basel, concerts of The Threepenny Opera in Vienna, London, Paris, and Hamburg, Salome in Valencia, Das Rheingold in Seville, Salome at the New National Theatre Tokyo, and a new production of Jenůfa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
At the 2011 Salzburg Easter Festival, Hanna Schwarz performed the role of Herodias in Salome under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, as well as new productions of Die Soldaten at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Zurich Opera, and Jenůfa and Salome also in Zurich. Her other engagements include new productions of Tchaikovsky’s
Fleuranne Brockway has captivated audiences in her native Australia, as well as throughout Europe. In 2022, Brockway won first prize and Best Female Voice at the 8th Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino, and first prize at the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Competition. She was also a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2023. Since moving to Europe, Ms. Brockway has maintained an impressive schedule of performances in roles such as Charlotte (
Sofia Anisimova is a Ukrainian mezzo-soprano, member the Opéra National de Paris academy since September 2023 and resident at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium. She made her debut during the 2024-2025 season of the Opéra National de Paris in the role of Kate Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly directed by Robert Wilson. She plays the role of Costanza in Haydn’s L’isola Disabitata. In the 2025-2026 season, she will perform the role of Ramiro in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera. In August 2025, she will sing the role of Olga in Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Verbier Festival. That same month, she will participate in the production of Cosi fan tutte in the role of Dorabella at the Castel Artès Festival.
In June 2024, Sofia played the title role in the opera La Victoire de Karima, created by Edwin Baudo, at the Philharmonie de Paris. In September 2024 at the Salle Cortot in Paris, she presented her narrative show l‘Invitation au voyage, based on the story of her forced journey from Ukraine to France due to the war. She is supported by the Orphée Musique Foundation and has taken part in several masterclasses with major opera figures such as Michel Plasson, Sophie Koch, Thomas Quasthoff, Susan Graham, Karine Deshayes, Zoryana Kushpler, Maciej Pikulski and others. Sofia is also socially and politically committed. For several years she was a deputy on the Kharkiv Youth Council, and has been deputy head of the Department of Cultural Development since 2019
Winner of the 2022 SWR Junge Opernstars competition, mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff is quickly establishing herself as an artist of intense musicality and brilliant vocalism. The 2023/24 season sees several important house and role debuts for her including as Ramiro in La finta giardiniera with Theater an der Wien and as Driade in Ariadne auf Naxos with Bayerische Staatsoper. She will also return to Deutsche Oper am Rhein as a guest artist to debut the roles of Angelina in Cenerentola and Marylou in Märchen im Grand Hotel. Concert work includes Poème de l’amour et de mer with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Orchestra della Toscana Italy, and a concert of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Respighi’s Il Tramonto with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchestra. Ms. Eickhoff also records the complete Hans Eisler Hollywood Songbook with pianist Eric Schneider this season, which is released on the Ars Production label.