We are delighted to welcome British soprano Katie Bird to the agency. This summer, Katie sang the title role in West Green House Opera's Madama Butterfly; this autumn she sings Hanna in Opera North's The Merry Widow (on tour from 24 Oct)

French counter-tenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian has busy few months ahead with performances of Rinaldo, Stradella's San Giovanni Battista (with Le Banquet Céleste), and his debut at La Comédie Française, singing in performances of La Nuit des rois (Twelfth Night) from this September right through to February 2019.

A busy summer sees French tenor Eric Vignau sing in productions of La Traviata, Le Nozze di Figaro and Hoffmann, followed by two productions in Avignon (a second production of Figaro and Orphée aux Enfers).

Conductor David Charles Abell has spent the summer conducting a critically-acclaimed production of West Side Story (d. Francesca Zambello) at Glimmerglass, following which he goes into rehearsal for Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in Zurich, with Bryn Terfel in the title role.