page_title: New Chamber Opera
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: New Chamber Opera / Activities
caption_attribution_description: The cast of Paisiello's ((Il Barbiere di Siviglia
context_page_description: New Chamber Opera is a professional opera company located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It specialises in the fields of chamber opera and music theatre, and produces rarely performed works from the Baroque era to the present. It is a member of the Opera and Music Theatre Forum. New Chamber Opera has received financial support from the Arts Council of Great Britain and The National Lottery.
context_section_description: The focus of the company's professional activities is the Summer Opera, an annual garden staging in the Warden's Garden at New College. The garden, a natural theatrical space surrounded by stone walls with an 18th-century stone summer house, is located between Queen's Lane and All Souls College.
  The Band of Instruments, founded by Michael Burden and Gary Cooper in 1995, first performed with the Choir of New College, Oxford. In 2014 the Band's musical director is Roger Hamilton, and its leader is Caroline Balding.
caption: The cast of Paisiello's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", 2017
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