Who’s Karen Cargill?

Karen Cargill is a Scottish operatic mezzo-soprano, and one of the vital famend singers of her technology.

She has carried out with each the Metropolitan Opera and on the Edinburgh Worldwide Pageant. She additionally performs twice on the 2023 BBC Proms.

How previous is Karen Cargill?

Karen was born in December 1975.

The place is Karen Cargill from?

Cargill was born in Arbroath, Scotland. ^{Her father was a plumber and her mom labored in a financial institution.}

The place did she research?

Cargill went to Carnoustie Academy, in Angus, east-central Scotland. She went on to review on the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Is Karen Cargill married?

Sure – to Nick Zekulin, former chief govt of the Nationwide Youth Orchestras of Scotland.

What roles has she sung?

Karen’s operatic roles embody Geneviève in Debussy‘s Pelléas et Mélisande, Judith in Bartók‘s Bluebeard’s Citadel, Dryade in Strauss‘s Ariadne auf Naxos, Dido in Purcell‘s Dido and Aeneas and Anna in Berlioz‘s Les Troyens.

Karen can be a lot admired for her Wagner roles: she usually sings Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Fricka in Das Rheingold, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Waltraute in Götterdämmerung and Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

She has additionally not too long ago sung Mahler Symphony No. 2 with each the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and Mahler Symphony No. 3 with Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin underneath Robin Ticciati.

What awards has Karen Cargill gained?

Karen Cargill gained the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier Award, an annual prize and funding given to a younger British singer to cowl the price of a 12 months’s research and common assist. Extra not too long ago, in 2021 Cargill was nominated for a Grammy Award for Finest Operatic Recording as a part of the Metropolitan Opera’s recording of Poulenc‘s Dialogues des Carmélites.

In July 2018, Karen was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Do you know?

Karen is Patron of the Nationwide Women’ Choir of Scotland.