Jennifer France
Winner of the 2018 Critics’ Circle Emerging Talent Award, British soprano Jennifer France was described in WhatsOnStage as the ‘living jewel in opera’s crown’.

Plans in the 23/24 season include two returns to the Royal Opera House for Iphis Jephtha cond. Laurence Cummings and Despina Così fan tutte cond. Alexander Soddy, and a return to the Bayerische Staatsoper for Ivette Die Passagierin cond. Jurowski. On the concert platform, Jennifer will sing Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Matthew Halls, Jonathan Dove’s There Was a Child with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Strauss’ Sechs Lieder with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Vasily Petrenko, Brett Dean’s Evolution Cantata with the Orchestre National de Lyon cond. Markus Stenz. George Benjamin’s A Mind of Winter with the Orchestre de Caen cond. Nicholas Simon, Brett Dean’s 2nd Quartet with the Doric String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall, Christmas concerts with the Royal Choral Society at the Royal Albert Hall & New Years Eve gala concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra cond. Jiří Rožeň.

Ian Bostridge
Bostridge’s extraordinary international career has taken him to the foremost concert halls, orchestras and opera houses in the world. Synonymous with the works of Schubert and Britten, his recital career has taken him to the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade Festivals and to the main stages of Carnegie Hall, the Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie and Teatro alla Scala. In opera, Ian has received particular praise for his interpretation of Aschenbach Death in Venice at the Deutsche Oper & Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw for Teatro alla Scala. His recordings have won all the major international record prizes and been nominated for 15 Grammys.

Highlights of the 23/24 season include artistic residencies for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and as Duo Artist in Residence at LIED Basel with Julius Drake. His plans include Les Nuits d’Eté with Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg cond. Corinna Niemeyer, St Matthew Passion with Musikkollegium Winterthur cond. Roberto González-Monjas, with Capella Cracoviensis and with Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra cond. Jarosław Thiel, Les Illuminations with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Madaras, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León cond. Koncz and Evangelist St John Passion with Orchestre national d’Auvergne cond. Henri Chalet, alongside performances with Camerata Bern, the Oberon Trio at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Les Talens Lyriques with Christophe Rousset at Trifolion Echternach and Compagnia di Punto at the Elbphilharmonie. Elsewhere, Ian undertakes a Japanese concert tour with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra cond. Matthias Bamert, a Korean concert tour of Les Illuminations with the Sejong soloists and repeats his ‘Tormento d’amore’ programme on tour with Capella Neapolitana. Recitals for this season include appearances at the Wigmore Hall with Andreas Haefliger & Dame Imogen Cooper, the Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém with Luís Duarte, the Herbst Theatre and Music and Beyond Festival in Ottawa with Wenwen Du, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Juliusz Sowacki Theatre Krakow & the Beethovenhaus Bonn with Saskia Giorgini, the Settimane Musicali di Ascona Festival with Dame Imogen Cooper, as well as the Stadtkirch Brugg, Theatre Royal Bath, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti Rome, LIED Basel & on tour in Japan with long-time collaborator, Julius Drake.

James Atkinson
British baritone James Atkinson is a graduate of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where he studied with Alison Wells. From September 2023, James joins the BBC New Generation Artist scheme in conjunction with Radio 3. His many awards include the Royal Over-Seas League Singers’ Prize (2022), the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards (2018), the Mozart Competition and the Audience Prize at the Somerset Song Prize (2019).