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

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

under the direction of Karen Gillingham. Water in the Desert: A Zayed Legacy, was an opera that embraces music, drama, movement, design, and film Read More