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