There are a small number of vacancies. Rehearsals are on Thursdays at various central Southampton venues from 7.30pm to 9.45pm. Sadly, Hillside Opera is to Cease in the new millennium with Jill Meager's retirement. Her vision is to provide a platform for trained and accomplished amateur singers and young professionals seeking experience in opera roles not usually accessible to them. The activities are organised to accommodate singers with busy lives, following careers in or outside music, or in full time study.
Rehearsals take place over a very short but intense period.
This especially suits our wide net of talented singers, some living as far away as East Sussex, Surrey or Oxfordshire. Roles are often double cast allowing one cast to provide the chorus for the other on alternate performances. Chorus work is encouraged for all as a very useful discipline, both musically and dramatically. Hillside Opera undertakes 3 or 4 projects each year. When financial resources allow, one will be a full production, and perhaps another will be a concert tour of costumed opera excerpts.