Rupert Christiansen introduces bubbly mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge, who plays Annio in La Clemenza di Tito for Opera North later this month.
Kathryn has been featured as a ‘New Face’ in the Daily Telegraph. Click here to read the full article…
Telegraph: New Faces
Liverpool Echo Entertainment – Noah Stewart Tour
Liverpool singer Kathryn Rudge on touring with Noah Stewart and her busy opera diary – May 18th 2012
RTE Lyric Fm – Marty in the Morning
RTE LYRIC FM - 14th March 2012
KATHRYN’S INTERVIEW WITH MARTY WHELAN (@2.36 Mins)
http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=16%3A3227830%3A5345%3A14%2D03%2D2012%3A
Irish Examiner – Article
IRISH EXAMINER – 8th March 2012
FAIRYTALE START FOR YOUNG SOPRANO
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/fairytale-start-for-young-soprano-186358.html
BBC Radio 4 – Women’s Hour Interview
BBC RADIO 4 – 2nd March 2012
BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN’S HOUR INTERVIEW – AN ORDINARY DIVA – KATHLEEN FERRIER CENTENARY
Independent I.E. – Article
INDEPENDENT I.E. - 22nd February 2012
BLONDE SCOUSER LASS WHO EXCELS AS OPERA LAD
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/the-blonde-scouser-lass-who-excels-as-opera-lad-3017026.html
Derby Telegraph
DERBY TELEGRAPH 20th February 2012
GIFTED YOUNG SINGER IS QUITE HAPPY TO WEAR THE TROUSERS
0 Nottingham Post – ‘Cornering the Boys’
NOTTINGHAM POST 17.2.12
CORNERING THE BOYS – OPERA NORTH GIULIO CESARE
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Cornering-boys/story-15255551-detail/story.html
Opera North Blog
OPERA NORTH BLOG 14th February 2012
A WHIRLWIND YEAR FOR KATHRYN RUDGE AS SHE TAKES ON THE ROLE OF SESTO IN OPERA NORTH’S GIULIO CESARE
0 The Times New Face in Classical Music 2012
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National Newspaper The Times: Classical Music New Face 2012
Saturday 31st December 2011 – The Times Newspaper
Kathryn has been listed by national newspaper The Times as the new face in Classical Music to look out for in 2012.
The Times critics choose their ‘rising stars of 2012′ across the genres of books, pop, tv, comedy, dance, film, visual art, and theatre. Kathryn has been listed as the New face of Classical Music.
The Times’ Chief Music Critic, Richard Morrison, writes;
“Pop singers can rise in a flash; the operatic route to the top is usually far slower. But Rudge seems to have a magic short-cut. Only 25 and fresh out of Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music, the pint-sized blonde mezzo soprano walked straight into a big Mozart role at English National Opera: Cherubino, the lovestruck adolescent boy in Fiona Shaw’s frenetic staging of The Marriage of Figaro…
…Now, scarcely pausing for breath, Rudge is up in Leeds rehearsing for Opera North’s new staging of Handel’s Julius Cesare in which she plays another bloke, Sesto…
In fact, none of this is as unexpected as outsiders may think. At the Royal Northern Rudge caught the eye and ear as a feisty Carmen. Then last spring she won the Joaninha Trust award, an annual contest for which each conservatoire in Britain sleects one outstanding singing student to compete… Nevertheless, the speed of Rudge’s rise is exceptional.”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/
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