KATE ROYAL

 

1) Debussy: Air de Lia (from L’Enfant Prodigue: “L’année, en vain chasse l’année”)

2) Delibes: Les Filles de Cadix “Chanson Espagnole”

3-5) Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne

i. Bailero (1st series, no.2)

ii. Malurous qu’o uno fenno (3rd series, no.5)

iii. La Delaïssado (2nd series, no.4)

6) Ravel: Vocalise en Forme de Habanera

7-9) Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, Scene III

i.  Anne Truelove’s aria

ii. Recitiative and Aria “No Word From Tom”

iii. Cabaletta “I go, I go to him”

10) Orff: In Trutina (Carmina Burana)

11) R Strauss: Wiegenlied op.41 no.1

12) R Strauss: Ich wollt’ ein Straüsslein binden op.68 no.2

13) R Strauss: Morgen! op.27 no.4 (G-dur)

14) Granados: Sa maja ye el Ruiseňor (The Lover and the Nightingale) from Goyescas

15-18) Rodrigo: Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios (Anon)

i. Con qué la laveré?

ii. Vos me matásteis

iii. De dónde venís, amore?

iv. De los álamos vengo, madre

19) The Sprig of Thyme (Anon) arr. John Fraser

 

Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Edward Gardner

 

“Creamy and pure, Royal’s voice is directly in the aristocratic line of Kiri Te Kanawa and Reneé Fleming”

- Gramophone

 

Described by The Times as “in a class of her own”, voices of the calibre of Kate Royal don't come along very often. She's at home in both opera and recital, has an elegant voice and a magnetic stage presence.

 

Kate Royal is already familiar to the record buying public through her participation in Paul McCartney’s award-winning Ecce Cor Meum, and also appeared on the best-selling King’s College Choir disc; Purcell Music for Queen Mary. Kate Royal also joins Ian Bostridge in two duets on his new album Great Handel

 

Kate Royal’s debut recital is an elegant selection of songs and arias including selections from Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne, Delibes’s popular Chanson Espagnole from Les Filles de Cadix, arias from Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, lieder by Richard Strauss, and Rodrigo’s beautiful Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios

 

Kate Royal is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music (with Alison Balsom) and the National Opera Studio and has wowed audiences and critics alike with her appearances at Glyndebourne, the Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh Festival and more recently the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in Thomas Ades’s The Tempest.

 

This autumn, she will be appearing at the English National Opera in the title role of a brand new production of Monteverdi’s last opera, The Coronation of Poppea and is set to return to Covent Garden in January as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.

 

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