# DORSET OPERA

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1105318
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [05170704](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05170704)
- **Registered:** Aug. 5, 2004
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1105318


## Contact

- **Address:** Dorset Opera, Cheselbourne, Dorchester, Dorset
- **Postcode:** DT2 7NP
- **Phone:** 01258 840000
- **Email:** info@dorsetopera.com
- **Website:** www.dorsetopera.com



## Activities

**Objects:** &quot;TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, IN OPERA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:· ORGANISING SUMMER SCHOOLS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ASPIRING SINGERS, MUSICIANS AND PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL BASED IN DORSET AND FURTHER AFIELD; AND · PRESENTING HIGH QUALITY OPERATIC PRODUCTIONS INVOLVING, WHERE POSSIBLE, SIGNIFICANT ROLES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHORISTERS&quot;

**Activities:** Providing an opportunity for young people to experience the demands and joys of participating in the choral or technical theatre aspects of opera production, through a residential summer school, alongside highly experienced professional soloist/tutors, production staff and orchestra, culminating typically in six public opera performances and a gala concert.




## Classification

- **How:** Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** DORSET
- Dorset





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **GARRY PETER BATT** | Chair | March 21, 2016 |
| His Honour David Euan Barron Grant |  | March 8, 2023 |
| Jean Mary Lang Mrs |  | March 12, 2018 |
| Lucinda Frances Coombs |  | Dec. 10, 2025 |
| Merlin David Philip Lewis |  | Dec. 17, 2023 |
| Paul Malcolm Jenner |  | Feb. 20, 2020 |
| RODERICK IAIN MACGREGOR KENNEDY |  |  |
| STEVEN DUDLEY NORMAN |  | May 1, 2014 |
| Susannah Hubert |  | Feb. 1, 2013 |




