Katarina Karnéus performing "Ging heut' Morgen über's Feld" from Gustav Mahler's song cycle Songs of a Wayfarer during the final of the Cardiff Singer Of The World competition in 1995. The Swedish mezzo-soprano won the Main Prize that year. She has since become a household name on the world's opera stages, including Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera National de Paris, among many others. Katarina Karnéus is equally active as a concert and recital singer, with engagements at the Proms, the Salzburg and Edinburgh festivals and many more. She was named Hovsångerska by the King of Sweden in 2018 and has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2021. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Carlo Rizzi Subscribe to the channel here to stay up to date with new releases bit.ly/SubscribeToCardiffSinger (p) 2022 BBC. The copyright in the recording is owned by the BBC. The BBC word mark and logo are trade-marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and used under licence. BBC Logo © BBC 2007 #CardiffSingerOfTheWorld #CardiffSinger #CSOTW #BBCWales #KatarinaKarneus #classicalmusic #opera #operasinger #mezzosoprano #SongsOfAWayfarer #BBCNationalOrchestraOfWales #BBCNOW #Mahler #song #lieder