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Maksim Andreenkov made his operatic debut in 2015 as Petrus in Carl Orff’s Der Mond at the Pokrovsky Opera in Moscow. In 2018, he entered the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and began performing on the chamber stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 2020, he joined the Young Artist Program at Helikon Opera in Moscow, where he appeared as Escamillo (Carmen) and Nardo (La Finta Giardiniera).
Since 2022, he has been based in Germany, where he made his debut as Sonora in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at Theater Hagen. In 2023 and 2024, he performed the title role in Il Re Teodoro di Venezia and Don Artabano in Cimarosa’s Le Trame deluse at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (HfMT). He also performed as Iarbe in Piccini’s Didon at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival in 2024.
Baritone Yeongtaek Yang is in his first year with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. In the Met’s 2024/25 season, he made his company debut as Marullo (Rigoletto) and appeared as the Second Nazarene (Salome). Recent engagements include covering Giorgio Germont (La Traviata) and the title role in Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, and performing Gianni Schicchi at the Chautauqua Institution. His previous roles include the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Des Grieux (Le Portrait de Manon) at the Manhattan School of Music, as well as Don Giovanni at Seoul National University. Yeongtaek won First Prize in both the 2023 Opera Index Competition and the 2024 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, and Second Prize in the 2024 Zachary Competition in Los Angeles. He holds degrees from Seoul National University and the Manhattan School of Music.
Russian baritone Anton Beliaev, a member of the Opera Studio of the Semperoper Dresden, is already performing on some of Europe’s leading opera stages. At the Semperoper, his roles include Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Schaunard (La bohème), and Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus). Recent and upcoming engagements include La finta giardiniera at Theater an der Wien, Lucia di Lammermoor at Theater Basel, L’elisir d’amore at the Bregenzer Festspiele, and Le nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival. In summer 2025, he performed the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Verbier Festival as part of the Academy’s Atelier Lyrique.
Georgian tenor Giorgi Guliashvili began his studies at the Tbilisi State Conservatory and made his debut in 2019 as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Alfredo (La Traviata). He joined the Academy of Teatro di San Carlo in 2021, training for two years with Mariella Devia. In 2022, he debuted in Italy as Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca) at Teatro di San Carlo and appeared in Paisiello’s Don Chisciotte della Mancia. Giorgi has performed under Riccardo Frizza as Signor Hervey in Anna Bolena, and as Flavio in Norma. In 2024, he joined San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, singing excerpts from Faust, Iolanta, and Lucia di Lammermoor. Giorgi recently won first prize at the Gerda Lissner Competition and performed Vaudémont (Iolanta) at the Yale School of Music in 2025, completing his postgraduate studies at Yale University.
He will be joining the Jette Parker Artists Program starting next season.
London-Irish tenor Hugo Brady, winner of the 2022 Junior Kathleen Ferrier Competition, studies at the Royal College of Music with Russell Smythe as the Victor and Lilian Hochhauser Scholar. He is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and is a Samling Artist and an Oxford Song Young Artist. Hugo has appeared with Nevill Holt Opera and the Manchester Camerata, performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, and appeared at the Barbican Hall with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra, most recently as Belfiore in La Finta Giardiniera. He is also an Associate Artist of The Mozartists. Hugo has participated in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Bernarda Fink, Roderick Williams, and Véronique Gens. In the 2024/25 season, he debuts at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and performs extensively at Oxford Lieder Festival.
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.
Maryam Wocial is a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music where she is the Poppy Holden scholar supported by the Cuthbert Smith scholarship. She is generously supported by the H R Taylor Trust, the Munster Trust, and is a Josephine Baker Trust artist. In 2024, she made her debut as a soloist with professional ensembles including The Mozartists, Instruments of Time and Truth, and she is the inaugural vocalist on The English Concert’s early careers fellowship programme for 2024–25. At the Britten Theatre, Maryam has performed the role of Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Ilia (Idomeneo), and Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) in opera scenes. Last summer, she debuted the role of Anastasia Romanov in the world premiere of Jasmine Morris’s Church on the Blood, a contemporary opera produced in collaboration with Tête à Tête Opera. As a concert soloist, Maryam has performed at prestigious venues including the Sheldonian Theatre, the Cadogan Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. She recently won the 2nd Prize at the International Handel Singing Competition in London.
Katrīna Paula Felsberga made her debut as Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the Latvian National Opera in the 2024–25 season. She has also performed Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and was named ‘Young Artist of the Year’ at the 2024 Latvian Great Music Awards. A dedicated recitalist, she has appeared at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin with Graham Johnson and Malcolm Martineau, and participated in the Heidelberger Frühling Liedfestival and the Kissinger Sommer’s LiederWerkstatt. Highlights of 2024 include a solo recital at Rachmaninoff’s Villa Senar in Lucerne and a performance at the Konzerthaus Berlin with organist Iveta Apkalna. She is also active in contemporary music and has worked with Ensemble Modern and Ensemble l’Itinéraire.