Based at City University London, City Opera Ensemble aims to provide students with comprehensive, practical and theoretical training in all aspects of operatic performance. This showcase will feature scenes from Italian operas through the centuries.

The operas
La Calisto (1651): Cavalli
Orlando (1733): Handel
Così fan tutte (1790): Mozart
La Cenerentola (1817): Rossini
Suor Angelica (1918): Puccini

Ensemble
Singers: Alicia Gurney, Belén Barnaus, Hettie Hobbs, Letty Keys, Lucy Harris, Rhys Chard, Roberta Mancinelli, Roza Kalnins, Sian Dicker

Instrumental Ensemble
Nicola Lyons and Bryony Swinger (violin), Izzy Jones (viola), Marta Dourado (cello), Anna Paidiou (oboe), James Bramley (theorbo), Niki Yoon (harpsichord)Répétiteurs
Ben Yuen, Massimiliano GiuliattiniCoordinatorsDionysios Kyropoulos (music and stage director) Niki Yoon (principal accompanist and répétiteur tutor)Visiting tutorsDepi Mavropoulou, James Bramley, Alberto Prandini-Winters, Brita Forsstrom, Loretta Manson

For updated information please visit the groups website or the Guildhall website. For full details of the City Summer Sounds Festival please visit www.city.ac.uk/city-summer-sounds or click here for a poster.