Edinburgh

Opera Camerata was founded in 1983 under the name of "Sinfonia Opera" by Neil & Inga Mantle. The company's aim was, and still is, to put on productions of small-scale operas suitable for the Church Hill Theatre. It's first production was Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

Alison Rushworth took over from Neil Mantle as Musical Director in 1988. The first production under her baton, so to speak, was Handel's "Agrippina", and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas". Alison has remained MD. ever since - except for one year when Vaughan Townhill took over.

Productions to date include:
        Mozart                Don Giovanni
                                    The Magic Flute
                                    La Clemenza di Tito
        Smetana            The Bartered Bride
        Verdi                  Falstaff
        Humperdinck    Hansel and Gretel
        Nicolai               The Merry Wives of Windsor
        Offenbach         The Tales of Hoffmann
                                   La Belle Hélene
                                   La Vie Parisienne
        Puccini              Sister Angelica and Gianni Schicchi
        Bizet                  Carmen
        Weber               Der Freischutz

The Opera Camerata chorus has sung in several concerts with Philomusica of Edinburgh.