Mentorship, Vocal Training, and the Future of Opera with Matthew Rose

I haven't played golf for a very long time and I like playing golf and I'd like to have four hours a week where I could go and play golf would be nice, please.

Yeah, I have to budget that in the time schedule.

So what houses and what are your show dates for these two operas?

So this is actually a wonderful festival that exists just outside of London called Grange Park Opera.

So in the 1930s, Glyndebourne happened to exist, which is, you know, a man, John Christie, decided that he wanted to start an opera festival.

His wife was an opera singer and he thought it would be a wonderful thing at a time when people were leaving Germany and Austria to kind of find the best people in the world to put on an amazing opera festival.

So Glyndebourne's been in existence, you know, almost 100 years now.

It's kind of amazing.

90 years, I guess, at least.

And as a result of that, and Glyndebourne being so popular, other festivals like Glyndebourne have existed.

So there's Garsington and Grange Park, and very confusingly, the Grange Festival and Longborough Festival.

There's all these wonderful summer festivals we have in England.

So even though we don't have as many major opera houses through our country as we should, And we do have these wonderful summer festivals that in June and July are thriving and giving amazing work to British singers and other people and opera makers, you know, costume people and everything.

You know, it's just an amazing resource for people that do opera in the UK to have some work at this time of year.

So I feel very lucky to be there.

Yeah, and you said Ryan Gould as well.

Is that also a summer festival?

Yeah, it's all at the same place.

Luckily, it's all in the same building, so to speak.

Got it.

That makes it a bit easier.

Makes it a little easier.

Yeah, okay, fantastic.

So going back to these summer programs that you're putting on for other singers, tell me more about what inspired you to start this and knowing that you have so little time and energy, why is this important to you?

Yeah, I mean, the time-energy thing, I mean, I kind of...