British Youth Opera

British Youth Opera provides professional opportunities for singers, musicians and technical trainees. Our participants normally have either just finished or are about to finish years of training and begin their professional careers.

That’s what the ‘youth’ in our name refers to – not age, but the fact that our participants are all at the beginning of their lives in opera.

More than 5,000 young people have benefitted from British Youth Opera’s training. Around half of these have been singers, and the other half music, creative and production staff: conductors, repetiteurs, directors, designers, lighting designers, costume assistants, and production and stage managers.