Diva Opera was founded in 1996 by Anne Marabini Young and Bryan Evans and has since established itself as one of the leading English chamber opera companies. This is the result of its high-quality productions, which bring together artists, directors, and designers from the most prestigious operas, while showcasing some of the most talented young singers of their generation.
Every year, Diva Opera performs over 50 times across France, Switzerland, the Channel Islands, and Great Britain. For several years, the company toured with international tenor José Carreras, and in March 2004, it had the honor of performing Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Fenice Theatre in Venice.
Diva Opera is regularly invited to prestigious opera festivals, including the Azuriales Opera Festival in Cannes and Nice, the Vézère Festival, the Nuits Musicales en Vendée Romane, the Dijon Musical Summer, the Musical Hours of Haut Anjou, the Musical Weeks of Quimper, the Labeaume en Musique Festival, the Nuits de la Citadelle Festival in Sisteron, the Yvelines Festival, the Théâtre de l’Olivier in Istres, the Pin Galant in Mérignac, the Domaine des Vaux in Jersey, Whittaker Hall in Guernsey, and the Théâtre du Passage in Neuchâtel.
Diva Opera also performs numerous fundraising concerts for charitable organizations such as Hope and Homes for Children, the British Red Cross, Children with Leukaemia, Marie Curie Cancer Care, and The Stroke Association.
In concert, Diva Opera has been invited to prestigious venues such as St John’s Smith Square and Wigmore Hall in London, in the presence of Princess Royal, Princess Alexandra, and the Duke of Kent.
For the past 15 years (2010 to present), the company has continuously renewed its repertoire, presenting a wide range of programs:
• Bizet: Carmen
• Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, L’Elisir d’Amore, La Fille du Régiment
• Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
• Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro
• Puccini: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème
• Rossini: Cinderella, The Barber of Seville
• Strauss: Die Fledermaus
• Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
• Offenbach: La Belle Hélène, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Tales of Hoffmann
• Verdi: La Traviata, Falstaff, Rigoletto
