Streetwise Opera Announces Fundraiser to Ensure Survival

Streetwise Opera has started a fundraising campaign to raise £120,000 to ensure its survival. The company, which enables people who’ve experienced homelessness to find inspiration and empowerment through music, has raised £35,585 as of this writing. Streetwise Opera has been running for 22 years and is the UK’s only opera company dedicated to working with homeless people. The company offers individuals {…}

Royal Philharmonic Society Awards Announces Shortlist

A shortlist of this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Award recipients has been released. For the purposes of this article only opera related nominees are included. The full list can be found here. Chamber-Scale Composition Nilufar Habibian – “Az nahāyate tāriki” (“From the deep end of darkness”) Conductor Alice Farnham; Alpesh Chauhan; François-Xavier Roth Ensemble BBC Singers; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective Impact {…}