Performing in June and July each year, Garsington Opera (GO) produces four opera productions in partnership with two resident orchestras - the Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert and has a highly respected Young Artists programme for emerging professional singers and creatives, and a year-round inclusive community programme with an economic model that supports this. Established in 1989, GO has achieved great success particularly in the last 10 years and is respected for its artistic quality, its warm welcome, and for punching well above its weight.
 

In 2024 Garsington Studios will open, a £14.5M building providing a year round, purpose-built facility to support and facilitate the growing international reputation of the summer opera festival and its programme of community involvement, and it will also be available for external hires. This marks an inflection point for the organisation involving the introduction of new business models and new ways of working; this post will play a key part in ensuring that business, financial and reporting systems are in place to reflect and support this moment of change.

Garsington Opera is an independent charity and is not a National Portfolio Organisation; as such it is dependent on private philanthropy, Trusts and Foundations and box office income. Primarily a Friends membership organisation, GO sells around 85% of opera tickets to its 2,500 members, who are also its donors. GO has a thriving U35 membership who have access to discounted tickets with the aim of developing future audiences and providing wider access to quality arts performances. GO’s dynamic community activity is central to its ethos of expanding involvement in, and engendering a love for, the performance arts.