Helen Charlston is a young mezzosoprano who is creating a significant reputation for herself in opera and especially in concerts, where she is becoming a favoured mezzo soloist of conductors such as Paul McCreesh and Stephen Layton. She won the first prize in the 2018 London Handel Singing Competition and is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 201719.

Here she tackles Lilli Lehmann's "Great Scale" the exercise par excellence for steadiness and uniformity of tone; the blending of the registers; and above all, stamina.

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