ENO Baylis is ENO’s Learning and Participation Team. Established in 1985, ENO Baylis is named after Lilian Baylis, the pioneering theatre manager whose vision of making opera accessible to all led to the founding of ENO.

Our aim is both to introduce new audiences to opera and to deepen and enrich the experience of current audiences in an adventurous, creative and engaging manner.

English Touring Opera’s award-winning education department delivers about 250 workshops and interactive performances each year for 10,000 people of every age and ability.

The scope of the company’s work includes residential in-school projects (secondary, primary and special), brand new operas for young people, a long-term partnership for primary schools with the National Portrait Gallery, full-scale community operas, and creative work for people with dementia.

John Christie and his opera singer wife, Audrey Mildmay, founded the Glyndebourne Festival in 1934. Today the Festival runs from May to August with a programme of six operas and together with the Tour, which runs throughout England from October to December, Glyndebourne presents about 120 live performances each year to a total audience of around 150,000.

From 2014 The Opera Group and Mahogany Opera are joining forces to become Mahogany Opera Group – building on their combined strengths to create even greater possibilities for future opera projects. Mahogany Opera Group creates new opera in new ways, in different spaces and places throughout the UK and internationally. It presents each distinct project with a vitality that stretches the boundaries of what opera can be and who it is for.

Opera North Education aims to bring the richness and excitement of opera in all its forms to as many people as possible across the North of England and beyond.

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company and the largest performing arts organisation in Scotland.

We are committed to bringing the widest possible range of opera, performed to the highest possible standards, to the maximum audience throughout Scotland and the UK; each year we perform in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness and over 50 other theatres, village halls and community centres.