A new “People’s Opera”, co-created and performed by 180 amateur & professional participants, about a refugee Syrian girl who triumphs over adversity to follow her dream: a story which champions diversity through music to highlight what makes us all human. Dalia, a new opera by composer Roxanna Panufnik, librettist Jessica Duchen and director Karen Gillingham,… Read More
Karen Gillingham, Director The Grange, in collaboration with WWF and focusing on food sustainability, examined how we produce, eat and often waste our food. Essential to our everyday life, do we consider the effect that our food consumption has on our planet? We were shocked to learn over a third of our food is wasted.… Read More
Karen Gillingham, Presenter & Co-Creater17 episodes of digital workshops performed on YouTube. Each episode is themed around a different opera and includes a physical warm-up, singing and dancing. Karen Gillingham and team are joined by a special guest musician who performs live. View the workshop videos.
Karen Gillingham, Presenter & Co-Creater/director GO Create; the opera imaginarium, is a new digital resource created to engage young people with opera in an inspiring, accessible and fun way. Aimed at ages 11-16, GO Create opens the doors to singing, design, composing, lighting, and all the cogs that keep the world of opera turning. GO… Read More
Directed by Karen Gillingham, this new production featured young professional singers performing alongside 90 members of our Youth Company aged 9-25. Tells the tale of one giant, his garden and an equal share of paradise. In 2021 the Garsington Opera Youth Company takes to the stage once more, with a world premiere of The Selfish… Read More
Under the direction of Karen Gillingham, The Proms audience immersed in the sound of eight choirs – totalling more than 600 singers – placed around the auditorium. Read More
Garsington Opera’s Youth Company performed in the world premiere of The Happy Princess, a new commission written specially for the Company by composer Paul Fincham, with a libretto by Jessica Duchen Read More
Dare to Dream, Directed by Karen Gillingham, Composed by Hannah Conway Libretto by Lucinda Jarrett and Chris Rawlence. This project was a partnership between Buckinghamshire Music Trust, Garsington Opera and Rosetta Life. Read More
Dare to Dream, with the BBC Singers and Karen Gillingham Read More
In January 2019, under the direction of Karen Gillingham, East London Metropolitan Opera, supported by the Arts Council, presented a very Hackney interpretation of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus – one of the most joyous, entertaining, infectious operas in history. Read More
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