The 2025 Company

If Opera’s repertory ensemble company has emerging artists, access and inclusion at its heart.

We champion three main principles: supporting emerging and re-emerging artists, fair and weekly pay, and crucially, a repertory ensemble company. We aim to provide a fulfilling professional experience which develops the skills, repertoire, confidence and expertise of those artists involved, and help them to build long-term and sustainable careers.

The arts industry is often a tough world, but we believe artists deserve fair pay and stability. Our ensemble, chorus and guest artists will often perform across our entire season in a variety of roles.

The Ensemble

Alyona Abramova

Maddalena, Rigoletto
Gubernator & Historicus (Altus), Historia Jonae

Robin Bailey

Borsa, Rigoletto
Pluto, Orpheus in the Underworld

Susie Buckle

The Page, Rigoletto
Cupid, Orpheus in the Underworld

Simon Butteriss

Jupiter, Orpheus in the Underworld

Joseph Doody

Orpheus, Orpheus in the Underworld
Jonas, Historia Jonae
Testo, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Harriet Eyley

Euridice, Orpheus in the Underworld
Nauta (Cantus), Historia Jonae

Gráinne Gillis

Giovanna, Rigoletto
Public Opinion / Juno, Orpheus in the Underworld

Alexey Gusev

Rigoletto, Rigoletto

Thomas D Hopkinson

Monterone, Rigoletto
Nauta (Bassus), Historia Jonae

Inna Husieva

Gilda, Rigoletto

Sam Marston

Mercury, Orpheus in the Underworld
Nauta (Altus), Historicus (Altus), Historia Jonae

Ronald Nairne

Sparafucile, Rigoletto
Deus & Historicus (Altus), Historia Jonae

Andrés Presno

Duke, Rigoletto

Kieran Rayner

Count Ceprano, Rigoletto
Tancredi, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Katey Rylands

Countess Ceprano, Rigoletto
Diana, Orpheus in the Underworld
Nauta (Altus), Historia Jonae

Matthew Siveter

Marullo, Rigoletto
Styx / Mars / Bacchus, Orpheus in the Underworld

Megan Strachan

Gilda (Cover), Rigoletto
Euridice (Cover), Orpheus in the Underworld

Guest Artists

Lucy Knight

Historicus (Cantus), Historia Jonae
Clorinda, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Rebecca Harris

Violin, ZAREKtrio

ZAREKtrio

Oliver John Ruthven

Harpsichord, Organ, ZAREKtrio

Jan Zahourek

Gamba, ZAREKtrio

The Artistic Team

Nina Brazier

Director, Rigoletto

Paul Chantry & Rae Piper

Choreographers, Orpheus in the Underworld

Simon Butteriss

Director, Orpheus in the Underworld

Oliver Gooch

Artistic Director, If Opera
Conductor, Rigoletto

Monica Nicolaides

Assistant Director, Rigoletto
Staging Director, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Charles Kilpatrick

Repetiteur/Head Coach

Luca Panetta

Lighting Designer

Oliver John Ruthven

Music Director, Historia Jonae, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Elliott Squire

Designer, Rigoletto
Associate Designer, Orpheus in the Underworld

Michael Waldron

Conductor, Orpheus in the Underworld
Assistant Conductor, Rigoletto

The Production Team

Amy Batty

Deputy Stage Manager

Ed Borgnis

Head of Production

Tom Crosley-Thorne

Production Manager

Anna Dixon

Wardrobe Supervisor

Jobina Hardy

Hair, Make-Up & Wigs Assistant

Finn MacNeil

Duty Technician

Magali Sumkötter

Wardrobe Assistant

Christina Semertzaki

Hair, Make-Up & Wigs Supervisor