This season British-Irish Soprano Alison Langer will make her much anticipated Royal Ballet and Opera debut as Frasquita in Carmen. She will also return to Opera Holland Park for Violetta in La Traviata. Recent highlights include her role debut as Nedda in Pagliacci for Opera Holland Park, described as ‘sparkly and vulnerable in equal measure’ and Mozart’s C Minor Mass with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alison has a close relationship with Opera Holland Park where highlights have included Violetta in La Traviata, Oscar in Un ballo in Maschera, Micaëla in Carmen and Gilda in Rigoletto. For Opera North she has performed Violetta in La Traviata and Micaëla in Carmen. Elsewhere she has performed Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and Adina in L'Elisir d'amore (Waterperry Opera); Musetta in La bohéme (Iford Arts) and Bridesmaid in Le Nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne). She made her television debut on ITV's popular series Victoria, performing as the opera singer Jenny Lind and also performed Young Heidi in Follies for the National Theatre, which was broadcast nationwide in cinemas.

On the concert platform highlights include Mozart's C Minor Mass (Bergen) and Mozart’s Requiem at St Martin in the Fields. Other concert venues including Buxton Opera House‚ Barbican Centre ‚ Birmingham Symphony Hall‚ Queen Elizabeth Hall‚ Royal Albert Hall‚ The House of Lords and The Ritz. She also performs a Recital Programme based on the life of Jenny Lind. Alison is grateful to be the recipient of a Richard Angas Memorial Award.

Clare Presland trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She was a Chilcott Award winner. Highlights include Pia in the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House, Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures Under Ground) for The Royal Opera and Irish National Opera, Aksinya/Female Convict (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) for Opéra National de Lyon and Staatsoper Hamburg and Auntie Peter Grimes, Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd) for West Green House Opera, Susanna in Segreto di Susanna for Opera Holland Park, Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream) for English National Opera, Aldeburgh Festival and Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan, Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Lille Opera, the world premiere of Dani Howard's Yellow Wallpaper at the Copenhagen Festival (also Sadlers Wells and Opera Nova Festival, Prague), her BBC Proms debut in Ligeti's Requiem with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, her Wigmore Hall debut in the world premiere of Goehr's Combat of Joseph de la Reina and the Devil with the Nash Ensemble and Francis Potts' A Song on the End of the World with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Three Choirs Festival. Her 2024/25 Season engagements include her Teatro dell'Opera di Roma debut as Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes, Page (Salome) for Staatsoper Hamburg, Hypolyta (Midsummer Nights Dream) Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, and a return to the Wigmore Hall. 

A graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and recipient of a number of major awards, British bass William Thomas is fast making a name for himself as one of today’s most promising young singers.

Highlights in his 2024/25 season include his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich as Colline La bohème, Sparafucile Rigoletto in a return to the English National Opera , his Carnegie Hall debut in Bach's Johannes-Passion with the Orchestra of St Luke's/Bernard Labadie, Second Soldier in Salome with the London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano, and a return to the Salzburg Festival for Bruckner Mass no. 3 in F Minor with Vienna Philharmonic/Riccardo Muti

 Recent appearances have included roles for the Wiener Staatsoper; the Opéra national de Paris; La Scala, Milan; the Glyndebourne and Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festivals and, in concert, the Salzburg Festival with Camerata Salzburg/Manfred Honeck and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/Dinis Sousa, the BBC Proms with the Britten Sinfonia/David Bates, the Edinburgh Festival with The English Concert/John Butt and with the London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth.

Edward Batting studied organ with Richard Popplewell at the Royal College of Music. During his time at the RCM he was awarded the Haigh, Kistner and Canon Bark organ prizes and the Lofthouse prize for continuo, and at the age of 21, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. He is currently Organist and Director of Music at St. Alban's Holborn where he conducts and accompanies the professional choir in a wide and diverse repertoire comprising over 1,000 works. As an organist he is much in demand as both recitalist and accompanist having appeared at major venues including St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abbey and as soloist in the Poulenc and Leighton Concertos, and performed and recorded with leading choirs. He gave the first ever organ recital in the Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City, returning for the solo organ part in Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass which he also performed at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Also highly in demand as a vocal coach (notably for the Jette Parker programme at the Royal Opera House) and repetiteur, he has prepared singers for roles with major theatres around the world and his engagements have included Turandot (Santiago), Vanessa (Palermo), La Voix Humaine and Il Tabarro (Montepulciano), Les Malheurs D’Orphee and Mahagonny Songspiel (Mexico City), L’Amour du Loin (Beirut), La Boheme (Glyndebourne), La Clemenza fi Tito (Aix-en-Provence) and La Boheme, Die Zauberflote, Lucia di Lammermoor, Semiramide (Assistant Chorus Master) , Tosca, Salome, Il Trovatore, Carmen, Mitridate, Il Trittico, Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Don Carlo, Jephtha and Saariaho's Innocence for the Royal Opera. He also appears as harmonium player on Opera Rara's recently released volume of Donizetti songs with Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Nicholas Ansdell-Evans is a composer, pianist and conductor. He has composed instrumental and chamber music, songs, and choral and organ music. His opera, Carina, has received a highly acclaimed showcase at English National Opera.

As a pianist and répétiteur, Nicholas works freelance at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Garsington, Hallé, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestr and elsewhere. He was répétiteur for Sir Simon Rattle on the Aix/Salzburg Ring cycle with the Berlin Philharmoniker. He conducts orchestras and choirs and has worked as assistant conductor on many productions at ENO. From November 2025, he will be assistant conductor to Sir Mark Elder in Valencia.