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The Future of Opera, Open to All
🥀Championing emerging opera makers and creating opera accessible to all
🔜Il Matrimonio Segreto, Leigh Delamere

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🥀Love is complicated. Keeping it a secret? Even more so...🥀

Kleine Opera is delighted to present Il Matrimonio Segreto!

We can't wait to return to beautiful Leigh Delamere this September and perform Cimarosa's charming comedy, filled with mishaps and mayhem.

This is a public event!! For tickets, contact info@kleineopera.com or send us a DM!

✨Cast and Creatives announcement coming soon✨

#kleineopera #ilmatrimoniosegreto #cimarosa #opera #leighdelamere by @kleineopera

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Welcome to the Kleine Opera Company page - we want to create and bring opera for every location and occasion.
Kleine Opera was established in September 2024 by @emilystewart.soprano & @charlie.barker_singer

🪭We’re excited to share our ideas, passion and projects with the big wide world! And with this post please enjoy some pictures from our debut production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro last September in Gloucestershire.

Directed by our artistic director @emilystewart.soprano who not only did a brilliant job directing the production but also sang Susanna!

‼️We’re over the moon to perform a revival of this production next week in Leigh Delamere for a SOLD OUT audience! Not to worry, more is coming!

CAST PRODUCTION 2024 & 2025

Figaro: @samweakleybaritone
Susanna: @emilystewart.soprano / @lucyfarrimond_soprano

Count Almaviva: @charlie.barker_singer
Countess Rosina Almaviva: @ellieforrester.soprano

Cherubino: @merelmagalimezzo
Barbarina: @sarahthomasoprano
Marcellina: @mezzo_mila.johannsen
Basilio & Don Curzio: @jaybroadhursttenor
Bartolo & Antonio: @davetheoperaguy

ORCHESTRA: @palaplayspiano 🎹
Sur-titles: @niaedwardsmusician
Social Media: @merelmagalimezzo
@emilystewart.soprano @charlie.barker_singer by @kleineopera

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✨cast announcement✨

The role of Carolina will be performed by Rosa Sparks, and the role of Elisetta will be performed by Megan Hill 🥀

✨Soprano Rosa Sparks is currently a Young Artist with the International Opera Academy in Ghent, having recently graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, where she studied under the tutelage of Elizabeth Ritchie. Whilst completing her Masters of Music at the RNCM, Rosa won the prestigious Frederic Cox Award for Singing competition, received the Dame Eva Turner Award, and won the Betty Bannerman Award for French Song with Clonter Opera. The 25/26 season saw Rosa perform as Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Bourla Theatre in Antwerp, as well as returning to Grange Park Opera where she sang the role of Young Krishna in the world premiere of Tavener’s opera, Krishna, and the Voice of Heaven in Verdi’s Don Carlo.

✨Soprano Megan Hill is from the North East of England and is currently studying at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Ben Johnson, supported by a Neville Wathen Scholarship. At the RCM, she has performed the roles of Aldimira Erismena, Pamina Die Zauberflöte and the Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia in Opera Scenes. Opera highlights outside of the RCM include Belinda Dido and Aeneas and Aunt Norris, Mansfield Park. Most recently, she performed scenes as Donna Anna Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte and Countess Le nozze di Figaro at the Da Ponte Opera Summer School. She has also performed as the soprano soloist in a range of other works, including Purcell’s Come Ye Sons of Art, Handel's Messiah, Fauré's La Naissance de Vénus, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, Tippet’s A Child of our Time, Geoffrey Bush's Christmas Cantata and Howard Goodall's Eternal Light.

🥀we are so delighted to have Rosa and Megan on board! Watch these rival sisters scrap on the 5th September, in Leigh Delamere.

🎟️Don't miss out! Only a handful of tickets left....ticket information in bio! by @kleineopera

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🥀Introducing our excellent Director, Simon Brown!🥀

British director Simon Brown makes his directorial debut in ‘Il Matrimonio Segreto’ with Kleine
Opera in summer 2026. His recent career has seen him as assistant director alongside world
renowned director Ella Marchment and choreographer Adam Haigh, on operas by Benjamin
Britten, Kurt Weill and Maurice Ravel. Alongside these exciting projects, Simon is an operatic
lyric tenor, working across Europe with engagements lately in Venice, Köln, Essen and around
the UK, performing roles such as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni – Mozart), Maintop (Billy Budd –
Britten), Mercury (Orfeus in the Underworld – Offenbach) and Mr Dodge (Barnum’s Bird – Libby
Larsen). Most recently, Simon has performed in the critically acclaimed Glyndebourne
production of ‘The Railway Children’ by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and is returning in the
2026 summer season in the Glyndebourne Chorus as well as covering a number of roles.
Simon graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2024 with a Masters Degree in Vocal
Performance (Tenor), where he was the Mason Award Holder, supported by the Il Circolo Society
as well as being a Joesphine Baker Trust scholar. He also has a First Class (Hons) Bachelors
Degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Vocal Studies and Opera.

🥀Catch Simon's new production of Il Matrimonio Segreto on the 5th September, Leigh Delamere✨Enquire for tickets today!! by @kleineopera

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🥀Introducing our wonderful Music Director and Répétiteur, Toby Stanford✨

Toby Stanford is a repetiteur, coach, and composer whose work spans opera, art song, and
contemporary music. He read music at the University of Oxford, where he was Music Director of
Oxford Contemporary Opera and repetiteur with New Chamber Opera. Continuing his studies at
GSMD, he was a member of Graham Johnson’s Song Guild and received a scholarship to
attend the Franz Schubert-Institut in Baden-bei-Wien. In 2024/25, Toby held a place on the
Piano-Vocal Arts Residency offered by McGill University and the Université de Montréal. As a
recitalist, he has appeared at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Hall, and Salle Bourgie. His works
have been performed by ensembles including RedNote, CHROMA, and OuSinf. Last year his
song cycle, When I Was A Boy I Lived Like Water, was written in collaboration with Cyrus
Larcombe-Moore and premiered in Canada and Northern Ireland.

✨Catch Toby performing on the 5th September in Leigh Delamere🥀Enquire for tickets today! by @kleineopera

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🥀Last but certainly not least...introducing Cameron Eldridge as Geronimo🥀

Geronimo is just trying to run a respectable household, but the heart wants what the heart wants...and there are many hearts wanting very different things💔

From Worcestershire, Baritone Cameron Eldridge is in his third year of undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, where he trains under the tutelage of Jonathan Lemalu and Gamal Khamis. In 2025 he was a finalist in the AESS Dorothy Richardson English song prize and two years prior, he was awarded the AESS Catherine Lambert Recital Prize and subsequently performed at the Prize Winners’ Concert as part of the London Song Festival.

Cameron has performed in opera scenes at Oxenfoord International where he was directed by Donald Maxwell and Linda Ormiston. The roles he played were Guglielmo (Così fan tutte, Mozart) and Steward (Flight, Dove). He also participated masterclasses led by Susan Bullock and Matthew Rose. He looks forward to interpreting Geronimo in Klenie Opera’s production of ‘Il Matrimonio segreto’ at Leigh Delamere this September.

🥀Catch Cameron as Geronimo, 5th September, 2026✨Enquire for tickets today! by @kleineopera

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🥀Conte Robinson will be portrayed by the wonderful Edward Wenborn🥀

Conte Robinson arrives expecting to marry Elisetta, but after meeting Carolina, he quickly changes his plans...and complicates everyone else's 🥸

Originally from Cambridge, England, Edward is a baritone currently studying at the Royal Northern College of Music under Quentin Hayes. In 2018 he went to Durham University, where he held a choral scholarship at St Chad’s College, and graduated with an undergraduate degree in Classics. During this time he developed a love of opera, joining Durham Opera Ensemble and performing numerous roles including Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin) and Pirate King (Pirates of Penzance). His recent roles include Masetto (Don Giovanni) as a young artist with Flat Pack Music, Leandre (L’amour des trois oranges) with the RNCM, Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen) with the RNCM and cover for Rambaldo (La Rondine) with Atelier Armonico. He is the winner of the 2025 Alexander Young Prize, and currently holds a scholarship with the Diocese of Manchester Choral Scholars. His upcoming projects include joining the Edvard Grieg Korene and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra for Mahler’s Second Symphony and recording with Opera Rara alongside the ENO chorus (Barkouf). He is very much looking forward to performing as Count Robinson (Il Matrimonio Segreto) with Kleine Opera.

🥀Catch Edward as Count Robinson on the 5th September in Leigh Delamere ✨Enquire for tickets today🥀 by @kleineopera

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🥀introducing Paolino....Oscar Bowen Hill🥀

Poor Paolino is doing his best to keep the secret marriage secret, all whilst keeping Conte Robinson and Fidalma at bay ✋

Oscar is a young tenor marked as one to watch. He realised his passion with the Glyndebourne Academy in 2023 and has since been working with Yvonne Howard and Chris Turner, with thanks to the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and Amphion Fund.

Having earned praise for his “expressive tenor voice, marked by clarity, agility and emotional depth” highlights include a “brilliant” Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, in March 2025. Oscar also made operatic role debuts in 2025; as Dr Charles Maitland in the premiere of Z. Leeming: Dangerous Matter, in June, and as Trouffadino for Prokofiev: L’Amour des Trois Oranges, in December.

In January 2026 Oscar began work in the inaugural ChorAkademie of the Bayersiche Staatsoper, in Munich. Then, in March, Oscar made his debut as the Evangelist in the Bach: St Matthew Passion. Oscar looks forward to returning to the UK to work with the British Youth and Kleine Opera Companies this summer, before moving to further recital and concert projects throughout the Autumn and into 2027.

🥀Catch Oscar as Paolino, 5th September in Leigh Delamere ✨enquire for tickets today! by @kleineopera

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🥀The role of Fidalma will be performed by the one and only Merel-Magali Cox!🥀

Just to add more matrimonial mayhem to the mix, Aunt Fidalma has her sights set on Paolino 😵‍💫

Dutch mezzo-soprano Merel-Magali Cox is currently studying for her Master’s degree at the Royal Northern College of Music, under the tutelage of Mary Plazas. She is supported by the Dame Eva Turner Award, Help Musicians, Het Cultuurfonds, the Peter Snook Trust, and the James and Mary Glass Trust.

Her operatic roles include Linette (L’Amour des trois oranges), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Idamante (Idomeneo, abridged), Solomon (Solomon), and Woodpecker and Mrs Pasek (The Cunning Little Vixen). Merel-Magali is delighted to be joining Buxton International Festival this summer as a Young Artist.

An RNCM Songster, Merel-Magali enjoys an active solo career in oratorio and recital. She has won prizes in the RNCM Song Cycle Competition and the Williams-Howard Prize, and was a finalist in both the Frederic Cox Award for Singing and the David Clover Competition.

🥀Catch Merel-Magali Cox as Fidalma, 5th September, Leigh Delamere✨Enquire for tickets today!

#kleineopera #ilmatrimoniosegreto #cimarosa #opera #leighdelamere by @kleineopera

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An other bunch of just beautiful snippets by @davetheoperaguy of our last production of Le Nozze di Figaro!

Do share them around if you like them - the lanterns seems to make a reappearance🕯️✨ taken in Chippenham, Wiltshire by @kleineopera

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🥹We can’t believe it has been more two weeks already since we performed our second production of Mozart’s Masterpiece: Le Nozze di Figaro!

Whilst we reminisce on these memories - please enjoy these fabulous pictures taken by @davetheoperaguy during one of our rehearsals in the venue! Can you guess which picture portraits which scene? 🧐😍 taken in Chippenham, Wiltshire by @kleineopera

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🪭Tonight is the night! 🎭
Get ready for a beautiful evening filled with great music in the refreshing country side of Leigh Delamere💐 by @kleineopera

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