Centre Stage Artist Management has welcomed Nadezhda Karyazina for general management. The Russian-Swiss mezzo-soprano, who recently won the 2025 Herbert von Karajan Prize, opened her 2024-25 season as Marfa in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina at the Helsinki Festival and the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. She is also a regular guest with the Bavarian State Opera.
IMG Artists has welcomed mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack for general management. Mack’s 2024–25 highlights include returning to the Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera as Federico García Lorca in Ainadamar, performing Angela in Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and singing Idamante in
Idomeneo at San Francisco Opera, alongside her debut as Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
Askonas Holt has welcomed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari to its roster for worldwide general management. This summer Molinari makes her debut at Glyndebourne singing Rosina in The Barber of Seville. Next season she makes her debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago singing Dorabella Così fan tutte under the baton of Enrique Mazzola and will sing the title role in Ariodante for her debut at Opéra national de Paris.
Axelle Saint-Cirel has joined HarrisonParrott VOICE for worldwide management. Following her powerful performance of La Marseillaise at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony, Saint-Cirel has quickly become a household name in her native France, appearing at major public events, fashion shows and on television. On the classical stage,
she has been selected for this summer’s prestigious Salzburg Young Singers Project and will make her debuts next season at the Wexford Festival,
Opéra national de Bordeaux and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Seán Boylan has joined IMG Artists for general management. This season the Irish baritone made his Italian debut in Sicily in the role of Alcandro in L’Olimpiade with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Irish National Opera. He concludes this season performing Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Nevill Holt Festival with Opera North and will return to Opera North during the 2025-26 season to debut as Schaunard in La bohème.
Jean Teitgen has joined HarrisonParrott VOICE for general management. The French bass is a regular presence at leading European opera houses, acclaimed for his rich timbre, powerful voice and wide-ranging repertoire spanning Italian and French roles. Recent and upcoming highlights include acclaimed performances as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte and Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande at Opéra national de Paris, and his Wagner debut as Daland in Der fliegende Holländer at Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse. Future appearances include engagements at Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra national de Bordeaux and Teatro Real.