Kate Royal
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Kate Royal (born London, 1979) is an English lyric soprano. She attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset. She later studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then the National Opera Studio, graduating in the summer of 2004. In that same year, she won the Kathleen Ferrier Award.[1]
Royal began to attract wider notice as an understudy for the role of Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2004, when she substituted for the lead soprano at one performance.[2] With Glyndebourne on Tour, she has sung the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro.[3] She has performed in recital with the pianists Graham Johnson and Roger Vignoles[4]. In 2006 with Glyndebourne on Tour, she sang The Governess in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw.[5]. Later the same year, she signed a recording contract with EMI Classics, and her first disc of songs and arias was released in September 2007.[6].
[edit] Discography
- Kate Royal: Recital (EMI Classics, 2007)
- Ian Bostridge featuring Kate Royal: Great Handel (EMI Classics, 2007)
- Paul McCartney featuring Kate Royal: Ecce Cor Meum (EMI Classics, 2006)
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge featuring kate Royal: Purcell: Music for Queen Mary
[edit] References
- ^ Rupert Christiansen. "Loneliness of the long-distance singer", Telegraph, 17 September 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
- ^ Neil Fisher. "Kate Royal", The Times, 2 January 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
- ^ Laura Barnett. "Portrait of the artist: Kate Royal, soprano", The Guardian, 2 October 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
- ^ Hilary Finch. "Royal/Vignoles", The Times, 15 January 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
- ^ Tim Ashley. "The Turn of the Screw", The Guardian, 23 October 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
- ^ Geoff Brown. "Kate Royal", The Times, 8 September 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
