Kate Royal
The British soprano Kate Royal was born in 1979 and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio, winning the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2004 and beginning a long-term relationship with Glyndebourne Festival later that year (subsequent roles at the Festival have included Donna Elvira in Jonathan Kent’s staging of Don Giovanni, Female Chorus in Fiona Shaw’s production of The Rape of Lucretia and the Marschallin in Richard Jones’s Der Rosenkavalier). Royal made her solo recording debut on EMI in 2007 with a recital of music by Strauss, Stravinsky, Britten, Debussy and others (‘Creamy and pure, Royal's voice is directly in the aristocratic line of Kiri Te Kanewa and Reneé Fleming’ – Gramophone) and went on to record a further solo album with Malcolm Martineau four years later; her discography also includes Miranda on the world premiere recording of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest (conducted by the composer), Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Karl Jenkins’s Stella Natalis. Royal is married to the British actor and music theatre star Julian Ovenden.
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Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mozart's The Magic Flute
21st Oct 2013
Pavol Breslik and Kate Royal are the young lovers put to the test in Robert Carsen’s production from Baden-Baden, with Ana Durlovski as the Queen of the Night, and Dimitry Ivashchenko as Sarastro.
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Kate Royal: A Lesson in Love
14th Feb 2011
The British soprano and Malcolm Martineau present an eclectic programme of German, French, American and Italian songs tracing a young girl’s first love-affair, including music by Debussy, Liszt, Wolf, Schumann and Bolcom.
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Special offer. Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50
Sally Matthews (soprano - Peri), Mark Padmore (tenor), Kate Royal (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Florian Boesch (bass), Soloists from Guildhall School (Quartet) London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Kate Royal (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo) Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th February 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Choir of King's College Sings Purcell
Timothy Byram-Wigfield (soprano), Robert Chilcott (tenor), Jonathan Robarts (bass), Francis Grier (organ), Michael Cockerham (contralto), Tim Mead (countertenor), David Hansen (countertenor), Jacques Imbrailo (bass), Kate Royal (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Max van Egmond (baritone, bass), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Edward Philips (countertenor), Nicholas Hayes (bass), Gareth Morrell (bass), Peter Castle (soprano), Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music, Leonhardt-Consort, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Ledger, Stephen Cleobury, Gustav Leonhardt
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw (stage director)
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Opera, November 2016, Recording of the Month
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