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Bryn Terfel, a bass-baritone from Wales, won the Lieder Prize at the International Singing Competition Cardiff in 1989. Since then, he has performed at all the world’s major opera houses. His roles include Méphistophélès in Faust, the title role and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Jochanaan in Salome, the title role in Gianni Schicchi, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, and Balstrode in Peter Grimes. He also sang in the critically acclaimed production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Welsh National Opera, Wotan in the Ring Cycle at the Royal Opera House and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Sweeney Todd at the English National Opera. His recent performances include Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Balstrode at the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera House, the Dutchman at Grange Park Opera, Falstaff at the Zurich Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, Scarpia at the Zurich Opera and the Opéra National de Paris, Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House, and Boris Godunov at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Royal Opera House. He is also a versatile concert singer, having performed at the BBC Proms, given lieder recitals in all the world’s major cities, and directed his own festival in Faenol, North Wales, for nine years. His discography includes operas by Mozart, Wagner, and Strauss, as well as over fifteen solo albums, and he has been awarded the Grammy, the Classical Brit, and the Gramophone Award. In 2003, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his musical achievements, received the Queen’s Medal for Music in 2006, was knighted in 2017, honored with the title of “Austrian Kammersänger” for his services to the Vienna State Opera, and received a European Cultural Prize at the Tonhalle Zurich in 2022. He was a recipient of the Shakespeare Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation and was awarded the “Freedom of the City of London” in 2015.

Julie Fuchs, französische Sopranistin, studierte Violine und Schauspiel in Avignon sowie Gesang am CNSM in Paris. Von 2013 bis 2015 gehörte sie zum Ensemble des Opernhauses Zürich und kehrt seither immer wieder nach Zürich zurück. Hier sang sie u.a. Morgana (Alcina), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Rosane (La verità in cimento), Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims), Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia), Norina (Don Pasquale) sowie die Titelrolle in L’incoronazione di Poppea. Sie wurde dreimal bei den Victoires de la Musique ausgezeichnet und ist Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In jüngster Zeit war sie als Marie (La Fille du régiment) in Wien zu hören, als Fiorilla in Neapel, als Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) in Amsterdam, als Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles) am Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, als Giunia (Lucio Silla) und Gilda (Rigoletto) in Madrid, als Musetta (La bohème) in München, als La Folie (Platée), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) und Nannetta (Falstaff) an der Opéra de Paris, als Susanna beim Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, als Mélisande und Poppea in Barcelona, als Partenope in San Francisco, als Micaëla (Carmen) in Gstaad, als Adèle (Le comte Ory) an der Opéra Comique, in Versailles und in Pesaro sowie auf Tournee mit Marc Minkowski und Les Musiciens du Louvre als Aspasia (Mitridate). 2024/25 kehrt sie als Marie an die Opéra de Paris und als Susanna an die Bayerische Staatsoper zurück. Ausserdem singt sie La Stronatrilla (L’Opera Seria) an der Mailänder Scala und Cleopatra am Liceu in Barcelona. Ihr drittes Soloalbum, Amadè, ist 2022 bei Sony erschienen.

Anna Goryachova is originally from St. Petersburg and studied at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg as well as at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She began her career as a soloist with the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera, soon followed by guest appearances, including as Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims under Alberto Zedda in Antwerp and Ghent. From 2012 to 2017, Anna Goryachova was a member of the ensemble at Zurich Opera House, where she performed in roles such as Eustazio in Rinaldo, Mascha in Three Sisters, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Polina in The Queen of Spades, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Yen-Er in Rote Laterne, Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims, Alcina in Orlando Paladino, Zelim in La verità in cimento, and Adalgisa in Norma. Important milestones in her recent career include Sesto in La clemenza di Tito and Angelina in La Cenerentola in Geneva, Olga in Eugene Onegin in Vienna, Dulcinée in Don Quichotte at the Bregenz Festival, Rosina at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and at the Festival d’Opéra Baroque in Beaune, Dido in Moscow, Adalgisa in Trieste and Naples, and her debuts in the Arena di Verona, at the Royal Opera House in London, and at Teatro Real in Madrid in the title role of Carmen. She also performed Melibea in Rome, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Antwerp, Polina in Amsterdam and London, Ruggero (Alcina) at the Palais Garnier in Paris, Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri) in Pesaro, and Alcina (Orlando Paladino) at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In addition, she made her debut as Angelina at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 2022. The 2022/23 season has so far taken her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Carmen and to the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome as a soloist in Stravinsky’s Les Noces.

Benjamin Bernheim studied with Gary Magby in Lausanne and was a member of the International Opera Studio and later of the ensemble at the Zurich Opera House. The French tenor has since established himself as a regular guest at the most prestigious opera houses, including the Opéra de Paris, the Vienna and Berlin State Operas, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In 2020, he was named "Opera Singer of the Year" at the Les Victoires de la Musique Awards and "Musical Personality of the Year" by the French Critics’ Association. That same year, his debut album received both a "Diapason d’Or" and a "Choc de Classica".

Highlights of his career to date include the title role in Faust (Opéra national de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Latvian National Opera), Roméo in Roméo et Juliette (Opéra national de Paris and Zurich Opera House), Rodolfo in La bohème (Opéra national de Paris, Zurich Opera House, Royal Opera House, Berlin State Opera, and Vienna State Opera), Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Zurich Opera House, Vienna State Opera, and Salzburg Festival), and Alfredo in La traviata (Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Zurich Opera House, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra national de Bordeaux, and Berlin State Opera).

He has also given song recitals at the Salzburg Festival, the Verbier Festival, La Grange au Lac, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Philharmonie de Luxembourg, and the Wiener Konzerthaus. Most recently, he made his role debut as Ruggero Lastouc in Puccini’s La rondine at the Zurich Opera House. Benjamin Bernheim is an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon.