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Karen Cargill

Details

Position: Singer

Voice: Mezzo-Soprano

Nationality: Scottish

Winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier Award, the Scottish mezzo-soprano has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Operatic Recording as part of the Met’s recording of Dialogues des Carmélites. In 2018, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the RCS. With her recital partner Simon Lepper she has performed at Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Kennedy Center Washington and Carnegie Hall New York, and regularly gives recitals for BBC Radio 3. With Simon, she also recorded a critically acclaimed recital of Lieder by Alma and Gustav Mahler for Linn Records. Karen is Patron of the National Girls’ Choir of Scotland and sang in the National Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication for King Charles III following his Coronation in 2023. Taken from the Festival 2024 programme book.

Performances

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 30 June 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 04 July 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 07 July 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 11 July 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 17 July 2018 at Royal Albert Hall, London view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 21 July 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 23 July 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 26 July 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 29 July 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 01 August 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 04 August 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 06 August 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Genevieve / Pelleas et Melisande, 09 August 2018 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde, 13 August 2021 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde, 17 August 2021 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde, 21 August 2021 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde, 24 August 2021 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde, 28 August 2021 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde, Proms performance 2021 at Royal Albert Hall, London view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 10 June 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 15 June 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 18 June 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 23 June 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 30 June 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 07 July 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 14 July 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 21 July 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 24 July 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 29 July 2023 at Glyndebourne view performance details

Mother Marie / Dialogues des Carmélites, 07 August 2023 at Royal Albert Hall, London view performance details

Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde, 29 July 2024 at Glyndebourne view performance details