Classical & Opera: 'We Laughed About It - the Logic Was to Cast Me As Sco Featured Artist'

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Scotland's hottest mezzo Karen Cargill counts Simon Rattle and the Berlin Phil as fans - but she'll always keep coming home

EVER wondered what a mezzo soprano is? It's a question I put to Karen Cargill, - for the simple reason that the Arbroath-born singer is currently Scotland's hottest property among mezzos. Let her upcoming diary speak for itself: a featured artist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; new-found favourite of Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic; soon-to-be debut artist at the New York Met, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and Covent Garden; and she is already a veteran of the BBC Proms and regular guest of Scottish Opera.

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Classical & Opera: 'We Laughed About It - the Logic Was to Cast Me As Sco Featured Artist'

She's not brazenly name-dropping when referring to the buzz she got making her debut last season with Rattle's supreme Berlin outfit. "How did that happen?" Cargill asks herself more than once as our conversation turns to recent major breakthroughs in her career, such...

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