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This season, soprano Sylvia D’Eramo joined the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. She previously trained with the Los Angeles Opera in its Young Artist Program, where she covered Mimì in La Bohème, and sang Fosforo and Euretti in Landi’s La Morte d’Orfeo. She made her debut with Lyric Opera Kansas City as […]

Originally from Québec city, Jean-Philippe Mc Clish holds a master’s degree and an artist diploma in opera performance from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he studied with soprano Dominique Labelle. Previous roles include Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (Opéra de l’Université de Montréal) as well as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Re in Ariodante, Készakállú […]

Brought up in Derbyshire, Bass-Baritone Edward Jowle is a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music, studying with Russell Smythe and Gary Matthewman. A 2019/20 Samling Scholar, he is supported by the Drake Calleja Trust, the Josephine Baker Trust and the recipient of the RCM Rose Williams Scholarship. ​ Recent Operatic work includes: Guglielmo (Cosí […]

American soprano Angela Meade made her professional operatic debut on the Met stage in 2008, stepping in for an ill colleague to sing Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani. Since then she has become known for excelling in the most demanding heroines of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire, and the operas of Verdi and Mozart, receiving such […]

Egyptian soprano Fatma Saïd’s list of accolades for El Nour, her 2020 debut album with Warner Classics, included BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year and Vocal Award, Opus Klassik’s 2021 Young Artist of the Year, and the Gramophone Award for Song. Her 2021/22 season began with a gala concert in Istanbul with Rolando Villazón, […]

Baritone Alexander York, from Wisconsin, begins his second season in the Académie of the Opéra national de Paris, where he will be seen in Don Carlo as a Flemish Deputy and in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges as L’Horloge comtoise and Le chat. Last season, he sang Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. York recently made his Bayerische Staatsoper debut in Viktor Ullmann’s Der zerbrochene Krug in the role of the Bedienter. […]

Stephen Marsh is the 2018 recipient of the Paulette Bisley and Eleanor Blakemore Opera Scholarships with Melba Opera Trust. He made his professional debut in Victorian Opera’s Sleeping Beauty in 2017 and was also a developing artist, performing in Hansel and Gretel, Heroes and Villains (a gala concert) and Gordon Kerry’s The Snow Queen. Stephen […]

Originaire du sud de l’Italie et née en 1978, Maria Agresta sort diplômée du conservatoire Guiseppe Martucci de Salerne puis rejoint l’institut de musique Vecchi-Tonelli de Modène. Ce n’est qu’en 2006 que cette jeune soprano obtient ses premiers rôles, avec Rosina dans Le Barbier de Séville de Rossini, au Teatro Lirico Sperimentale de Spoleto. En 2007, elle y […]

Bassoonist Pierre Gomes studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique in Lyon with Carlo Colombo before being accepted to the Munich Philharmonic Academy. He performed as member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra before joining the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in 2011 and being invited to join the […]

Thomas Hampson has received numerous international awards for his artistry and cultural influence. His operatic repertoire includes more than 80 roles and his discography includes more than 170 albums, which have won several Grammy and Edison Awards and the Grand Prix du Disque. The American baritone is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University […]