Don Carlos – Act II duet (Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Andrés Presno; Jette Parker Young Artists)

Celebrate our Jette Parker Young Artists as they draw their year to a close with the annual summer performance. Spot stars of the future and enjoy a showcase of musical and creative works from our singers, conductors and stage directors and répétiteurs. 

Isabelle Kettle returns to direct excerpts from some of the greatest operas after her recent success directing Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel for online audiences in April. Andrés Presno performs the title role in Verdi’s Don Carlos, Michael Papadopoulos conducts mezzo-soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards and tenor Filipe Manu in a duet from Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia. Alexandra Lowe and Egor Zhuravskii become the ever passionate lovers in the balcony scene from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and the performance culminates with Act I scene ii of Verdi's Falstaff featuring all current Jette Parker Young Artists (see full cast information for all artists featured) and Former Jette Parker Young Artist Gyula Nagy.

The Jette Parker Young Artists are joined by guest conductors Sir Mark Elder and Richard Hetherington in the pit with The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

[kagitsune]

Ms. Ranhwanasha has become such a force of vocal beauty. It's been wonderful watching her journey with the ROH!

[markemark]

I just can't get enough of this girl! 27 years old. My God!! Its so thrilling listening to that big, rich, creamy, velvety voice. And her natural sense of musical phrasing and expression takes me on quite a ride. I recommend listening to her Cardiff performances. My favorites were the art song and lieder concert. Her interpretation of Gretchen was AMWZING!! The best I've ever heard. And don't EVEN get me started on that Strauss song. I just adore her

[wagnerpolveiro]

Wonderful, this is a beautiful duet and the voice of these two young artists is very beautiful !

[sweartoangel]

I know not one bit of opera or what they're singing about, but I could listen to it all day and feel all the passion through

[lisar]

Such growth even in the short time since Joyce DiDonato’s masterclass. Spectacular voices— but what impresses me even more is the honesty of the work. These are indeed young artists—not merely young opera singers. Viva la ROH.

[mayraniah]

Thankyou YouTube for recommended this to me. This is beautiful.

[thomasscottwilliams]

Great to see her in the finals of the Cardiff singer of the world competition and winning one of the prizes, I look forward to seeing her soon, hopefully at the ROH, Much love from Wales

[jeffk]

This Elizabeth is stunning, absolutely divine. I hope she comes to the US.

[roberthorn]

She does indeed have a ravishingly beautiful voice, but like most singers today does not make enough of the words..but she is still young and her future looks bountiful

[TheJohnpandy]

She thrils me, and she moves so much. John Sivorn ❤️

[mikaposer]

Andrés is amazing! 😍😍😍😍 (so are the other ones)

[danafripp]

yes. Masabane, we are so better off now because you didn't go to law school. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[williesullivan]

She has a beautiful voice. She should work on her vocal and dramatic expression as well as her chest voice development.