Big Noise
Kate Royal's career took off in spectacular fashion after
she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in
2004. Winning the Kathleen Ferrier Award the same summer you
graduate and going straight into back-to-back high-profile
performances is every opera singer's dream.
After a one-year programme at London's National Opera Studio,
Royal went straight into roles such as Helena in A Midsummer
Night's Dream for the Glyndebourne Festival, the Countess in
The Marriage of Figaro for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and the
Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Miranda in Thomas Ades' The
Tempest for the Royal Opera.
One of her first recording breaks came when she appeared on
EMI's disc of Paul McCartney's large-scale classical work
Ecce Cor Meum. 'It was fascinating,' she told Muso. 'I
didn't know he had composed anything classical and I was
intrigued. I loved it actually.'
Her debut solo disc for EMI Classics was released in September
2007. 'It's a very, very mixed list,' she says of the
album. 'There's no theme as such. I just wanted to show a
range of what I sing. I picked some quite unusual pieces, things I
wouldn't otherwise have had a chance to sing.'
Sophie Cashell (Track 1 - Chopin Scherzo No 3 Op 39)
Sophie Cashell
Scriabin (Track 1 – Etude, Op 8)
Yevgeny Sudbin
Honegger (Track 1 – Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Andante)
Christian Poltéra
Liszt (Track 4 – Sonetto 47 del Petrarca)
Libor Novacek
Elgar Cello Concerto (Track 1 – Adagio)
Natalie Clein
Carl Nielsen (Tack 1– Flute Concerto, Allegro moderato)
Emmanuel Pahud
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (Track 1 – Spring)
Sarah Chang
