2024 is full of firsts - here are some highlights:
including UK premiere and my debut with Scottish Opera in Jonathan Dove’s MARX IN LONDON! (gorgeously rich-toned - The Scotsman), mentoring young artists on contemporary classical song repertoire in my first Wigmore Hall Masterclass, my directorial debut at The Byre Theatre, SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM, with musical director, Jason Carr, and the world premiere of Joe Cutler and Max Hoehn’s SONATA FOR BROKEN FINGERS with BCMG, recorded for Birmingham Record Company - and to start 2024-25, I’m headed back to OperaPhiladelphia for the U.S. premiere of Mizzy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s THE LISTENERS.
More updates to come with video, photos, and reviews!
Upcoming performances for Summer 2023
The Charleston Festival - Tell Me The Truth About Love
18 May, 12:30pm Music of Benjamin Britten and Conor Mitchell, with Lucy, James Gilchrist, Christopher Glynn, and Simon Russell Beale. Featuring Auden’s poetry, Britten and Mitchell’s Cabaret Songs and Mitchell’s Wild Plum Songbook commission Look Both Ways, the first settings of Britten and Pears’s letters.
To listen to Conor talk about his song cycle, and the commission, watch the lovely film commissioned by WPA and presented by Dr Lucy Walker.
The Grange Festival - Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
23, 25, 29 June, 2 July Paul Curran, director, Paul Daniel, conductor Governess, and covering the Countess (Josephine Barstow)
Below with Stephen Barber at Real World - giving it all up to the gods of music!
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An incredible three days recording new songs by the eclectic and inventive composer Stephen Barber at Real World Studios, in Wiltshire in March 2023. I’m loving producing and directing these projects - magic!
The Ride in the Helium Balloon and KHABIR will both be included in the Wild Plum Songbook.
Season 2022 Highlights included two world premieres and two UK premieres. I was the first Artist Producer for a UK opera company (Opera Holland Park’s production of Mark Adamo’s Little Women, in which I also sang Cecilia March.) Lots of photos below.
I was short-listed for the Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the Year 2023. Lana Bode and I performed live in the BBC Radio 3 InTune studio - and I talked all things new music, sang songs by Herschel Garfein, Lisa Robertson, and Amanda McBroom. I emphasised the importance of the role of the artistic producer, and the importance of the creative “think space” residency. And I reminded us all to hold fast to promises we made each other during lockdown and to focus on the changes and battles we have ahead. We are all too aware of what those are.
Oh, ok, and I surprised Sean Rafferty with a jar of Wild Plum Jam. Nothing if not on brand!
Wild Plum Songbook Recording at The Stapleford Granary ©Dan Welldon
Maddy, UK premiere of Heggie/Scheer's "Three Decembers" Opera della Luna ©Lidia Crisafulli
Mrs Cripps (Buttercup) HMS Pinafore Charles Court Opera/Opera Holland Park ©Ali Wright
Woman 3, World Premiere of Bowler/Lomas's "The Blue Woman" ROH - Linbury Theatre ©Camilla Greenwell
Polycaste, World Premiere of Gordon/Plaice's "Raising Icarus" Barber Opera - BCMG ©Matthew Williams-Ellis
Mrs Lovett, Sweeney Todd, Des Moines Metro Opera ©Duane Tinkey
Cecilia March, UK Premiere of Adamo's "Little Women" Opera Holland Park ©Ali Wright