Winner of the 2024 “Oper! Awards” for Best Newcomer, this season sees the release of Montague Rendall’s debut album recording, Contemplation, with Warner/Erato where he is an exclusive recording artist. His opera engagements start with David McVicar’s loved production of Le nozze di Figaro as the Count at the Royal Ballet & Opera. He then makes a very exciting house and role debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in the title role in Billy Budd before returning to the Opéra national de Paris for a highly anticipated new production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Other engagements include Eisenstein Die Fledermaus with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski in Baden-Baden and Paris; Count Le nozze di Figaro in a new production at Glyndebourne Festival; a European tour with Pygmalion Ensemble and Raphaël Pichon of Bach’s Johannespassion; his Wigmore Hall recital debut; Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch with Erin Morley and Malcolm Martineau; and a recital with Joseph Middleton at Pembroke College Cambridge.

Joseph Middleton is Director of Leeds Song, Musician-in-Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Professor and Fellow at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music.

The 2025/26 season sees Joseph partner artists including Veronique Gens, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Ian Bostridge, Dame Sarah Connolly, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Huw Montague Rendall, Roderick Williams, Florian Boesch, Christoph Prégardien, Carolyn Sampson and James Newby in recital. Joseph also returns to the Berlin BoulezSaal and Schubertiade Schwarzenberg with Sophie Rennert and his recording projects include an ongoing 5-album set of Mahler Lieder for Signum Records and Wolf Lieder for BIS Records.