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Hear the New Singer of the World Winner
Catriona Morison, a Scottish mezzo-soprano, burst out of the pack to win the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in Wales on Sunday. It was a surprise that she even made it to the finals: The judges gave her a wild-card slot to go up against the four winners of the previous concert rounds.
To secure the prize, Ms. Morison, 31, sang selections from Rossini (“Tancredi”), Strauss (“Der Rosenkavalier”), Ravel (“L’Heure Espagnole”) and Purcell (“Dido and Aeneas”) with a silky, lightly smoky tone, easygoing dramatic flair and unflappable poise. Here are two clips of her singing in an earlier competition in the Netherlands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/arts/music/hear-the-new-singer-of-the-world-winner.html?