ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Philip is the Artistic Director of Hampstead Garden Opera.
HGO - also known as Hampstead Garden Opera - advances young opera singers by giving them a chance to perform complete roles with orchestra in fully staged productions directed by some of the UKs most exciting young directors and conductors. Since becoming involved with the company the quality of singers and productions has continued to thrill audiences. He also set up a “Singers Fund” which raised over £30,000
Advancing young singers…
HGO stages first-class award-winning opera, with vibrant young singers and live orchestra, twice a year in London at affordable prices. Our standards of singing, acting, playing and production, coupled with the extraordinary intimacy of our venues, brings opera to life in a way that even major opera houses cannot achieve. We stage a wide variety of operas from the Baroque to the present-day, led by dynamic young directors and conductors.
This means we can provide unique opportunities for young singers – the professionals of the future – to perform in a theatre, before audiences, roles which, early in their careers, they would not be given in the big opera companies. Many are recent graduates from music college or students approaching the end of their course. They are hungry for experience in staged productions of our quality and excitement, and they value the boost that a major role with HGO can give them on their way to a successful career.
HGO is a registered charity: we have no paid staff, no premises, no overheads. We are entirely dedicated to forwarding our objective of advancing young singers.
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