After reading languages at Cambridge, Richard Wigmore studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music, where he won several prizes. He has performed widely as an oratorio soloist and recitalist in Britain and abroad, and has broadcast frequently for the BBC. He has sung regularly in Italy and made a number of recordings for Italian radio and television. His operatic experiences include two seasons with Glyndebourne, roles with Kent Opera, the Handel Opera Society and the English Bach Festival, and the British premieres of Elizabeth Lutyens’ Isis and Osiris and Musorgsky’s The Marriage, both broadcast by the BBC. His CD recordings include Rameau’s La princesse de Navarre, Bach’s Coffee Cantata and Handel’s Joshua.