Kate Royal

Kate Royal ( born 1979 in London) is an English lyric soprano.

Career

Kate Royal was born in London and attended in Bournemouth in the county of Dorset in South West England school. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later at the National Opera Studio, where she graduated in the summer of 2004.

Kate Royal became known to a wider audience when she stepped in at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera as a replacement for the actress who plays Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute, 2004. Simon Rattle was also here in 2004 attention to her when she had a small appearance in Mozart's opera Idomeneo, and encouraged them immediately.

In the following years she sang a number of lyric soprano roles in various operas and gave recitals with the pianist Graham Johnson and Roger Vignoles. In 2006, she signed a contract with EMI Classics, and their first recordings with songs and arias was published in September 2007.

2013 she performed with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle as Pamina in a concert performance of Mozart's Magic Flute, which was also published in the Digital Concert Hall.

Family

Her parents are singer and songwriter Steve Royal and the dancer and photo model Carolyn Royal.

Kate Royal is married to the English actor and singer Julian Ovenden since December 2010. The two have a son (* September 2009) and a daughter (* November 2011).

Prices

  • 2004: winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards
  • 2004: John Christie Award
  • 2006: Young Artist Award of the Royal Philharmonic Society

Discography

Solo

  • Kate Royal: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Edward Gardner, EMI Classics ( 2007)
  • The Songs of Robert Schumann Vol 10: Joseph von Eichendorff songs county Opus 39, with Graham Johnson, Felicity Lott, and Ann Murray, Hyperion (2007)
  • Midsummer Night: Orchestra of English National Opera & Crouch End Festival Chorus, Edward Gardner, EMI Records Ltd.. Barcode 0094639441952 (2007)
  • A Lesson in Love, with Malcolm Martineau (piano), EMI (2010)

More

  • Ian Bostridge with Kate Royal: Great trade, EMI Classics ( 2007)
  • Paul McCartney with Kate Royal: Ecce Cor Meum, EMI Classics ( 2006)
  • Choir of King 's College, Cambridge Kate Royal: Purcell: Music for Queen Mary
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