Hurn Court Opera

Starting the week with news of an exciting opportunity!

We're looking for a volunteer fundraiser to help strengthen our financial base and develop Hurn Court Opera's future as an arts charity.

Our ideal candidate will be experienced in sourcing, bidding for and winning grants and donations across a range of funding routes, with grant-awarding trusts and web-based campaigns, such as crowd-funding.

You should also be able to build funding by developing new and existing private and commercial networks, working with our trustees, our patrons and our friends.

Your work as a fundraiser will support the development of young opera singers as they embark on their professional careers. Your success will also help build audiences for opera in areas where there is limited or no exposure to professional opera performance, by enabling HCO to offer tickets at affordable prices.

This is a part-time, primarily home-based role, with occasional requirement to attend meetings (usually in Wimborne, Dorset) or attend our performances. Time commitment will vary depending on your availability and our needs.

You find full information here - if you're interested in joining our small but passionate team we'd love to hear from you!

https://reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/fundraiser-arts-charity

We’re here at Merley House this afternoon for The John Seldon Masterclass. The weather is glorious and we couldn’t ask for a more beautiful setting and acoustics for our young vocalists!

⭐️ON SALE NOW!⭐️

Make sure you book early for our upcoming John Seldon Masterclass at the link below.

Hurn Court Opera's Artistic Director Lynton Atkinson and Director Joy Robinson will work with a selected group of emerging young artists in front of a live audience in the elegant surroundings of the Music Room at Merley House, Wimborne.

This is an exciting opportunity to see how Lynton and Joy work with rising singers to equip them for castings and live performance and will give the audience a wider insight into why we cast the way we do for our opera productions. In addition, you'll learn what is required from performers to make it through the first round of our highly-acclaimed singers competition, which takes place in November.

Whether you are a seasoned opera aficionado, a curious music lover or a student interested in entering the competition later in the year, this will be an entertaining afternoon packed with fascinating insights and beautiful music. We hope you can join us! www.ticketsource.com/hurn-court-opera

Don't be sad because it's over - be glad because it happened! 🥰

It's always difficult to say good bye to a production - especially one as memorable as La Traviata 💔

We'd like to say a huge thank you to our incredible cast, orchestra, production team, costume makers, make up and hair artists and, of course, to our wonderful audiences and supporters for making this week so special 🙏

We hope you will stay with us as we continue our mission to shine a light on the opera stars of the future and make opera accessible and enjoyable to everyone! ⭐️

Photo: Alexander Kabanov Photographer