Elizabeth Watts

Versatile soprano Elizabeth Watts has a repertory ranging from Alessandro Scarlatti to György Ligeti. The recipient of some of the most coveted prizes in British vocal music, she has recorded frequently for major labels in Britain and elsewhere. At the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2007, Watts won the coveted Rosenblatt Song Prize and began a three-year stint as a BBC 3 New Generation Artist. In 2008, she made her recording debut with an album of Schubert lieder. In 2021, she appeared on a recording of Thomas Arne's rarely-heard opera Artaxerxes, and in 2024, she was featured on the recording Richard Blackford: Songs of Nadia Anjuma.