10th October, at Tramp, Jermyn Street, London SW1.    Discover the countertenor voice, with British opera singer James Laing. James Black his agent will join us for an interesting discussion on this relatively rare and beautiful vocal type. Pianist Claire Habbershaw will accompany. Performance,…

Divas & Scholars is thrilled to announce an evening with one of the opera world's most sought after tenors, Charles Castronovo.  Join us for this not to be missed event at London's most decadent nightclub Tramp, for a recital of some of the great tenor arias, an interview and dinner with this…

Divas & Scholars would like to introduce you to the acclaimed British soprano Claire Booth.  Claire is renowned as an established artist with a reputation for an extraordinary breadth of repertoire from Baroque to contemporary works. 30th June. London

Meet Alexandra Lowe, soprano for an evening of arias, an interview and dinner.  Alexandra will sing music from her roles and talk about her repertoire, about singing and life at Covent Garden as a Jette Parker Young Artist.

A very special evening with the tenor Jesus Leon. He sung many of the arias from his key roles and then played the guitar and sung some Mexican songs and Zarzuela. A very appreciative and happy audience of 120, and a wonderful dinner with Jesus and his pianist Jeremy Cooke. It all happened at…

5th February 2020 The  soprano Rebecca Bottone and pianist Harry Sever perform arias and talk about the soprano repertoire.  This will be a brilliant insight evening with a stunning recital.  Rebecca performs at The Royal Opera House and beyond.

21st October 2019 The  soprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lada Valesova perform arias and talk about the fascinating female roles in Czech opera.  Often psychologically vivid and intense, characters such as Rusalka, Marenka, Katya Kabanova and Jenufa search for love, suffer betrayal and are…

1st July 2019 Donizetti’s popular opera is a love story brimming with adored arias including Nemorino’s ‘Una furtiva lagrima’. The stars of the Iford Arts www.Ifordarts.org.uk , super talented young artists Claire Lees and Robert Lewis will perform with music director Oliver Gooch. Ash Khandekar…

3rd June 2019 Mozart’s great opera is a tour de force combining light-hearted fun, dark humour and tragedy.  Jonathan McGovern who is playing Don Giovanni at Garsington this summer joins forces with the Royal Opera House conductor Mark Austin to discuss Mozart’s score, the production they are…

29th April 2019 We are very lucky to have the renowned theatre director Christopher Luscombe, famed for his work with the RSC, numerous  West End hits and internationally acclaimed shows to talk about the opera which he is directing for Grange Festival. He will be joined by the esteemed…