Over the past five or six years the mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston has been making a name for herself as one of the most promising singers of her generation. She is a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, was a finalist of the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and has collected various other accolades in the meantime. That promise has been amply fulfilled and she is now in considerable demand at leading venues.
The Wimbledon International Music Festival was scheduled to feature a joint recital which she would have shared with the tenor Alessandro Fisher, but the latter’s indisposition necessitated a substitution, impressively provided by Robin Tritschler at less than 48 hours’ notice. Remarkably the announced programme of English song remained intact: this was clearly home territory for Tritschler.
