The Messiah: Hallelujah!  ^2025-2026

Widely regarded as one of the most versatile and respected singers of her generation, Lucy Crowe was awarded an OBE in the 2023 King’s birthday honours.

Globally renowned as a leading Handelian, she has delighted audiences with interpretations of many of his heroines. In 2025 she revived the role of Rodelinda at the Garsington festival – a role she sang in 2024 with The English Concert and Harry Bicket in Asia and the U.S.A., culminating in a stunning performance at Carnegie Hall, and in staged productions in Madrid, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. She will re-visit the role in Santa Fe in 2026, marking her debut at the festival.

This season Lucy also returns to The Royal Opera and Ballet singing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and to the English National Opera for her role debut as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. Her prestigious concerts include Messiah with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal as well as with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with Edward Gardner and to the London Symphony Orchestra for Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Symphony no 4. with Sir Simon Rattle.

Chilean-Swedish mezzo soprano Luciana Mancini is internationally in demand for her intense stage presence and vocal expressiveness in repertoire that spans from the Renaissance and Baroque to Berio and Piazzolla. In recent seasons she impressed in the title roles of La Cenerentola, Handel’s Serse and Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires at Theater Bonn,  at Theater an der Wien in Combattimenti, a new pastiche with music by Monteverdi, as well as Melissa in Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione. She was also part of Sasha Waltz’ productions of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Equally sought after in concert, Luciana Mancini has worked with conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado, Raphaël Pichon, Iván Fischer, Jordi Savall, René Jacobs, Juanjo Mena, Jan Willem de Vriend, Vaclav Luks and Jean-Christophe Spinosi and ensembles like the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Freiburger Barockorchester, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Bachconsort Wien, Ensemble Pygmalion, Collegium 1704, Il Pomo d’Oro, Orchestra of the 18^th Century and Les nouveaux Caractères. Luciana enjoys a particularly close collaboration with L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar.

Born in Kroonstad, South Africa, Levy Sekgapane studied with Kamal Khan and Hanna van Niekerk at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town.
From the very beginning of his career, he established himself internationally with two Rossini roles that have become his calling cards: Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, performed in new productions namely at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and Opéra national de Paris; and Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, which he has sung at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, among many others.

His wide repertoire also includes: Idreno in Semiramide, Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims, Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri, Rodrigo in Rossini’s Otello, Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Arturo in I puritani, Elvino in La sonnambula, Arbace in Idomeneo, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Jonah in Time of Our Singing.

He recently made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in the title role of Mitridate, a role he has also performed in Paris and Montpellier.

Levy Sekgapane is the winner of the first prizes at the International Belvedere Singing Competition (2015), the Montserrat Caballé Singing Competition (2015), and Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition (2017).

Roderick Williams is one of the most sought-after baritones of his generation and enjoys relationships with all the major UK and European opera houses.  He has sung world premieres of operas by, among others, David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michael van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel as well as roles by Mozart, Britten and Strauss.  He has performed concert repertoire with many of the leading orchestras and ensembles internationally including the Berlin and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, London Symphony Orchestra and all of the BBC Orchestras.  In demand as a recitalist, he has performed at major venues worldwide and festival appearances have included BBC Proms (Last Night 2014), Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne.  In 2016 he won the RPS Singer award and the prize for best choral composition at the British Composer Awards.  He was awarded the OBE for services to music in 2017 and was one of the featured soloists at the coronation of King Charles III in 2023.