KateRoyal

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  • Falstaff

    Opera North
    Sep 2023 - Nov 2023

    • Kate Royal was a laughing, sparkling Alice: as light on her feet as she was sensuous in her singing

    • Soprano Kate Royal was a sprightly Alice Ford, entirely engaged with her character, conveying playfulness and mischief in her voice.

    • A strong supporting cast includes an outstanding Alice Ford from Kate Royal, her glorious singing dominating as the character should, and a splendid Ford in Richard Burkhart, generating all the humour in his fury as the disguised Mr. Brook.

    • Kate Royal’s elegant poise and aristocratic demeanour might seem contraindicative to comedy, but she made a vibrant Alice, singing with her always light and sparkling tone.

  • Recital with Julius Drake and Christine Rice

    Leeds Lieder
    Jun 2023

    • The feeling of enlarged, radiant humanity that art song can bestow was revealed even more vividly in the evening concert, from soprano Kate Royal and mezzo-soprano Christine Rice. The two singers were interestingly contrasted, Rice more burnished and clear in sound and more “sassy” and worldly-wise in person, Royal more silky and smooth of voice and somehow more apt for moments of quiet disillusion and heartbreak. It’s a contrast they put to good use in duet songs by Schumann and Brahms, which were sometimes extravagantly tragic, sometimes amusing, as in Brahms’s entertainingly vicious song about the two sisters who are devoted to each other – until they fall for the same man. Finally came a set of Kurt Weill songs, shared between the two. The wry disillusion of Christine Rice in Nanna’s Lied, a song about a young courtesan, was touching, but it was Kate Royal’s desperate yearning for a land of lost content in Youvali that really wrung the heart.

  • Da Vinci Requiem

    Recording
    Apr 2023

    • The Wimbledon Choral, for whom it was written, are impressive, with clear lines and luminous hush under soprano Kate Royal’s magnificent soaring lines in the beautiful Agnus Dei movement.