Anthony Roth Costanzo is an American countertenor, actor, and producer who has led performances at opera companies around the world. Beginning his career in musical theatre at the age of 11, he has since been featured at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, English...

Tamestit, who studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, has performed at such venues as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, and Carnegie Hall and with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome [14 March 2019]. He won first prize at the 2000 Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition, 2001 ...

An Italian with a strong affinity for the German repertoire. A “natural melodist” (Der Tagesspiegel), who excels at transferring the intricacy of his stylistically informed interpretations to the big orchestral apparatus. More, a true artist merging sheer creative force with a highly collaborativ...

Born in Hildesheim in 1959, Barbara Mundel, after graduating from high school, studied contemporary German literature, art history and theater studies in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Munich. Parallel to her studies, she began working in theater at the Landesbühne Hannover as an assistant directo...

Benjamin Bruns started his singing career as an alto soloist with the boys’ choir in his hometown of Hanover. After four years of private singing lessons with Prof. Peter Sefcik, he studied at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg under Kammersängerin Renate Behle. While still a student he ...

Bo Skovhus (born May 22, 1962, in Ikast, Denmark) is a Danish opera singer (baritone). Skovhus studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, at the Royal Academy for Opera of Copenhagen and in New York with Oren Brown. While studying voice at the Royal Academy for Opera of Copenhagen, Skovhus ...

Bradley studied at St John’s College, Cambridge, and the Royal Academy of Music. While at the Academy he was a prize-winning finalist in the Joan Chissel Prize for Schumann Lieder, winner of the Blythe-Buesst Aria Prize, and winner of the Tom Hammond Opera Prize.

Carlos Álvarez (born 1966 in Málaga) is a Spanish baritone who has had a major international opera career since the early 1990s. His recording of the title role in Isaac Albéniz's Merlin with Plácido Domingo as King Arthur won a Latin Grammy Award in 2001, and his recording of the role of Ford in...

Christiane Oelze (born 9 October 1963 in Cologne) is a German operatic soprano. From 2003 to 2008, she taught singing at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Since 2010 she taught at the Masterclass of Apeldoorn (Netherlands), since 2011 at the Musik Academy in Arosa and since 2012 at IRCAM...

Christian Rieger comes from Neumarkt/Opf. and studied at the University of Music and Theater in Munich. 
He was the winner of the Richard Strauss Singing Competition. In 1994 he made his opera debut at the Oldenburg State Theater as Dandini in La cenerentola, and in 1995 he became a member ...

Schäfer was born in Frankfurt. She studied from 1984 until 1991 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, where her teachers were Ingrid Figur, Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. She also took master classes with Arleen Augér and Sena Jurinac.

Christopher Maltman (born 6 February 1970) is a British operatic baritone. Christopher Maltman was born in Cleethorpes and grew up mostly in Lincolnshire, attending King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth,[citation needed] then Warwick University where he received a degree in Biochemistry and subseq...

Christoph Marthaler (born 17 October 1951, Erlenbach, Switzerland) is a Swiss director and musician, working in the style of avant-garde theater, such as Expressionism and Dada, a theater of the absurd elements and opera director trained at the school of Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Christoph Marthale...

Born in Manchester, Clive Bayley sings regularly with major opera companies in a diverse repertoire spanning Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, Birtwistle, Richard Wagner and Ligeti.

His recent operatic engagements include the Doctor in Wozzeck at the Bayerische St...

Acclaimed by The New York Times as “an outstanding actress, as well as a singer of extraordinary grace and finesse,” American soprano Corinne Winters has performed over twenty-five leading roles at major opera houses around the world. Corinne’s 21/22 season begins at Opera di Roma as Madama Butte...

Danielle de Niese (born 11 April 1979) is an Australian-American lyric soprano. After success as a young child in singing competitions in Australia, she moved to the United States where she developed an operatic career. From 2005 she came to widespread public attention with her performances as Cl...

Williams grew up in Billings, Montana and appeared in operas and concerts as a boy soprano in the western United States. After his voice changed, he appeared frequently in musicals and won the International Kiwanis Talent Contest in New York City at 17 for his performance of "Ol' Man River" from ...

Daniil Olegovich Trifonov (born 5 March 1991) is a Russian pianist and composer. Described by The Globe and Mail as "arguably today's leading classical virtuoso" and by The Times as "without question the most astounding pianist of our age", Trifonov's honors include a Grammy Award win in 2018 and...

Dario Argento (born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and critic. His influential work in the horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, has led him to being referred to as the "Master of the Thrill" and the "M...

British tenor David Webb is a graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera School. David is a 35-year-old opera singer who has appeared in Aida at the National Opera. David used to be part of the classical music group Amore and prior to that trained at the Royal College of Music.

Diana Haller (born 11 November 1986) is a Croatian mezzo-soprano and active in opera, oratorio, and recital.She was named "Nachwuchssängerin des Jahres 2013" (Young singer of the year 2013) by the magazine Opernwelt.

Dmitri Tcherniakov (Russian: Дмитрий Черняков) (born May 11, 1970) is a Russian theatre director, and winner of numerous national Golden Mask theatre awards, who works with many European opera houses.

Sir Donald Cameron Runnicles (born 16 November 1954, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish conductor. The son of William Runnicles, a director of a furniture supply company and a choirmaster and organist, and Christine Runnicles, he began his education at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, moving ...

Duncan Rock was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Australia. He is fast making his mark on the international opera stage. He is currently a Harewood Artist for English National Opera where he recently made his Coliseum debut singing Donald in David Alden’s new production of Billy Budd. Also for EN...