In the coming years, countertenor Randall Scotting continues to record albums of varied repertoire. His first, The Crown, heroic arias for Senesino –recorded with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and released by Signum Classic in 2022 – received five stars from BBC Music Magazine. They noted that Randall ‘lets loose a ravishing vocalism’ while ‘applying deep colours, muscular core, and baritonal chest register to probe a huge range of feelings’.
His second album, Lovesick, 17th-century songs of heartbreak and solitude, was released in 2023. Along with Grammy Award winner and lutenist Stephen Stubbs, Randall used folk tunes and lute song to explored love and despair from several different angles. Gramophone found it to be ‘skillfully planned and beautifully executed’.
The 2023 album Infinite Refrain, music of love’s refuge, recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music, used the duets and arias of Monteverdi and his contemporaries to showcase seventeenth-century Venice as a place of unusual tolerance and acceptance. Limelight magazine noted that ‘discs such as this allow present-day listeners greater connection with and ownership of the musical riches of the past’.
In 2026, Randall releases an album of Baroque rarities with the Academy of Ancient Music exploring the artistry of the 18th-century castrato Nicolini, who was famed throughout Europe and helped to bring Italian opera to London. Further projects include a recording of new commissions for Randall’s voice that recontextualizes the Adonis myth through a modern lens. Further discoveries of Baroque repertoire, including the works of Antonio Caldara and Johann Adolph Hasse, are also in development.
In recent seasons Randall has made impressive debuts at the Royal Opera House in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and the Staatsoper Hamburg. He also joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera and he sang the leading role in a filmed version of Jonathan Dove’s Flight for Seattle Opera that was highly praised by the press. He is a dramatically persuasive and intensely musical interpreter, consistently recognized for winning over audiences with his stunning vocal beauty, stylish singing, and charismatic stage presence. The New York Times has noted that ‘Scotting possesses a flexible, expressive voice… the clarion countertenor was excellent’
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