Aylesbury Opera

Aylesbury Opera has been mounting opera productions and concerts in Aylesbury and the surrounding area for over 40 years.

Lizzie Ryder
Elizabeth Ryder is a spinto soprano with a deep and growing passion for the music of Giuseppe Verdi. She is currently exploring arias from Simon Boccanegra and La traviata, drawn to Verdi’s ability to combine vocal drama with lyrical elegance. Her voice, with its rich middle and expansive top, finds a natural home in this repertoire. She has performed in Rigoletto with Nevill Holt Opera and recently appeared as a soloist with the Hallé Orchestra in a gala concert at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall for 2,000 audience members, singing Song to the Moon, the Flower Duet, and Evening Prayer

Chiara Carbone
Chiara trained at the Conservatoire in Lecce, Puglia and then at the Accademia Lirica di Osimo studying with William Matteuzzi and Harriet Lawson amongst others. She followed this with a masterclass in 2019 at the “Wales International Academy of Voice “studying with Dennis O’Neill and Della Jones.

Tom Lidgley
Tom is a young British tenor who is currently a masters student, at the Royal Academy of Music, studying under Adrian Thompson at both the Royal Academy and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he completed his BMus (Hons) Degree.

Max Catalano
Maximilian Catalano is currently studying for a Vocal Masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Max played the bassoon as his primary instrument growing up, discovering a passion for singing later. He graduated from Cardiff University with a politics degree and decided to take a year out to develop his vocal technique and make the leap towards being a professional singer. During this year he sang solos for both Tring and Chorleywood Choral societies and began vocal training with David Pollard.

Harriet Lawson
Harriet studied the piano, harpsichord and voice at the Royal College of Music and as a post graduate répétiteur at the RCM Opera School. Her career was based in Italy, working as a répétiteur at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Teatro Piccolo in Milan. She collaborated with Giorgio Strehler on his last production, Cosí fan tutte, touring in China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Spain. She worked for six years at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Maestro di sala e al cembalo, collaborated with Théâtre de l’Opéra de Bordeaux, L’Orchestra Verdi Milano, Glyndebourne Festival, with Radio France and with Radio Suisse.