Head of Audiences and Communications
Longborough Festival Opera | Full time | Cotswolds-based (with flexible working)
Salary: £40,000–£45,000 depending on experience
Closing date: Monday 11th August 2025 at midday
Are you a strategic, creative, and audience-focused marketing leader with a passion for the performing arts? Longborough Festival Opera (LFO) is seeking a dynamic and effective Head of Audiences and Communications to shape the way we are seen, experienced and remembered.
We are looking for someone who can lead our marketing, communications, audience development, and box office strategies—while placing community, accessibility and engagement at the heart of everything we do.
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Company Manager
Longborough Festival Opera | Part-time, permanent – 180 days per calendar year
Location: London during rehearsals, our Longborough offices during the Festival Season, and hybrid working offered out of season. A valid driving licence and access to a car are required due to our rural location
Salary: £25,000 (FTE £36,000)
Closing date: Thursday 4 September 2025
Working closely with the Head of Artistic Administration and Production Manager, the Company Manager is primarily responsible for administrative, logistical and welfare matters of artists, production and season staff. The role requires a highly flexible, motivated and efficient individual, with a keen interest in our values and who wants an active and responsible role in a friendly and ambitious organisation.
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Director of Youth and Community Choruses / Big Sing Choir Director
Temporary freelance contract from September 2025 to July 2026 inclusive. (Please note that these roles can be separate or combined)
Role 1: Director of Youth and Community Choruses
Youth & Community Chorus Fee £8,000
Professional Chorus (Macbeth) £5,000
Role 2: Big Sing Project Fee £3,400
We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced, and enthusiastic individual to work with our Youth Chorus, Community Chorus, and Professional Chorus. Our Youth Chorus will perform in Hansel and Gretel in 2026, and our Community Chorus and Professional Chorus will perform in Macbeth in 2026. This role may also include directing our new and exciting Big Sing Project.
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Emerging Artist applications for Longborough’s 2026 season are now open.
If you would like to apply for any of these opportunities, please submit your application by Sunday 31 August 2025.
As part of the form, you will be asked to provide a link to a short recording of yourself. Please upload it to a platform that we can access such as Google Drive, YouTube, Soundcloud or similar. This can be video, or audio only, and it doesn't need to be a professional recording - on a phone is fine. This is an opportunity to show off and show us what you can do. If accompanied, we do not need more than a couple of bars of piano introduction.
If you are successfully shortlisted for an audition, you will be contacted by a member of the LFO team in early September. Auditions will take place in London in early October 2026.
Thank you for applying!
