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Arcangelo are delighted to be appearing in concert with Hilary Cronin in 2025/26.
Praised by Classical Voice North America for her “shining, rounded timbre,” and The Times as “one of the best young Handel sopranos around,” Hilary Cronin first came to wider prominence when she won both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2021 London Handel International Singing Competition.
Since then, selected by BBC Music Magazine as a “Rising Star of 2022,” conductors with whom she has collaborated include Sofi Jeannin, David Bates, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Harry Bicket, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Maxim Emelyanychev, John Eliot Gardiner, Stephen Layton, Robert King, Nicholas Kraemer, Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Christophe Rousset, András Schiff, Dinis Sousa and Peter Whelan.
She made her BBC Proms solo debut in Summer 2025 singing Alexander’s Feast, and her recent engagements have further included Galatea Acis and Galatea, Oriana Amadigi, Brockes Passion, Virtú / Damigella L’Incoronazione di Poppea and Haydn Nelson Mass with The English Consort; the title role in Arianna a Creta with La Nuova Musica; the title role in Semele for Waterperry Opera Festival (also at Opera Holland Park); Piacere Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno with Early Opera Company at Buxton International Festival; B Minor Mass and L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato with English Baroque Soloists; the St John Passion with BBC Philharmonic and Polyphony; Messiah with Britten Sinfonia, the Hallé, Huddersfield Choral Society, London Handel Orchestra and The Sixteen; First Harlot / Queen of Sheba Samson with Gabrieli Consort & Players, Haydn Nelson Mass with The Sixteen; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Royal Northern Sinfonia; and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment With Academy of Ancient Music, she appeared in Command Performance: Music for an Empress whilst at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, she sang Fauré’s Requiem.
Later this year, she will make her debut for MusikTheater an der Wien singing the title role in a new production of Cesti’s L’Orontea.
With Arcangelo, Hilary Cronin has recorded Handel’s Chandos Anthems, now available on Alpha Classics.