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Edward Birchinall is a member of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where he studies with Russell Smythe. His roles there include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and Don Iñigo Gomez (L’heure espagnole). A keen recitalist, he has performed across the UK and Europe, including at Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings, where he is […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

British mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson will join the Jette Parker Artists Programme at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from the start of the 2025 /2026 season.  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]