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Monthly Opera Clubs starting!

We’re gearing up for an exciting few months with projects starting in March with two of our longterm partners in the run up to our street opera production of The Elixir of Love this summer. Over the next few months we will be running monthly sessions at both Roehampton Base Youth Club and the Commonside Trust Elders Lunchclub!  Both groups will learn about the story and characters in The Elixir of Love in our new version; hear an opera singer sing live and up close; learn to sing a section of the opera themselves and other fun activities! We’ll also be listening to the groups to find out what sort of things they’d like to get up to in the sessions and which artists working in opera they’d like to meet and learn from. We can’t wait to get started!!

If you’re local to Roehampton aged 6-18 or local to Pollards Hill aged over 55 and would like to get involved please do get in touch for further information.

Hugest thanks to our funders for supporting this work!

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Announcing the Cast of Carmen!

We are delighted to announce the cast of Carmen:

Felicity Buckland – Carmen (Arcola Theatre)

Felicity Buckland

Felicity trained at the RNCM and on English National Opera’s Opera Works programme.

Recent solo appearances include Kasturbai, Glass Satyagraha for ENO, Wellgunde Wagner The Rhinegold for Birmingham Opera and Nicklausse, Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann for Kentish Opera. Previous ENO highlights include cover roles in The Valkyrie, The Mask of Orpheus (Birtwistle), Orpheus in the Underworld, Carmen, and Olivier-Award winning Porgy and Bess. Elsewhere she has sung the title roles in Carmen (Kentish Opera) and La Cenerentola (High Time Opera); Rosina The Barber of Seville (Opera South) Rossweisse Die Walküre (Grange Park Opera); Olga Eugene Onegin (Opera Up Close, Opera South East, Mid Wales Opera (cover)); Dorabella Così Fan Tutte (Baseless Fabric Theatre); Cherubino The Marriage of Figaro, and 3rd Lady The Magic Flute (both Opera Up Close). She is a regular extra chorister for The Royal Opera House, ENO and Opera North.

Felicity is in demand for solo oratorio, music education projects and consort/session work, and is delighted to be a regular part of Baseless Fabric’s Learning and Participation Projects. Read more