Community Chorus
Join the Community Chorus!
This year our Community Chorus will be participating in the UK premiere of Avner Dorman’s Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult.
We are looking for two male singers and four female singers to join the Community Chorus. The Community Chorus is supported by a professional chorus of 16 singers.
This is an opportunity to experience being part of a real opera production. What better way to try something different in the New Year?
Wahnfried will be conducted by Justin Brown (Die tote Stadt 2022) and features a cast of leading British singers including Susan Bullock CBE, and Mark Le Brocq – fresh from his roles as Loge and Siegmund in Longborough’s Ring Cycle and Aschenbach in WNO’s Death in Venice. Wahnfried will directed by our Artistic Director Polly Graham.
About Wahnfried
Find out more about the production, coming to Longborough in 2025.
The Community Chorus in 2025
The Community Chorus will be involved in Act 1 of Wahnfried and will be finished by the interval, around 18.30pm.
The schedule of rehearsals and performances can be demanding. Download the schedule to see what you would need to commit to.
Rehearsal schedule
Apply for the community chorus
Apply online to join the community chorus in 2025.
In 2023 we worked with singers from the local community to participate side by side with the main chorus in the performances of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. Five performances were shared between the 12 members. The Community Chorus returned in 2024's Götterdämmerung as part of the complete Ring cycle.
To find out more about opportunities in future years contact emma@lfo.org.uk
“although it was challenging, it was made very enjoyable by the way everyone from Longborough went out of their way to help us and the friendly welcome we were given… we felt fully integrated with the whole production.”
In the press:
“The Vassals are splendidly augmented by a Community Chorus” The Telegraph
“The Vassals sang lustily in the Ring’s only chorus, their number swelled by the contribution of Longborough’s Community Chorus” Bachtrack
“the male chorus of Hagen’s vassals all made their mark” The Guardian
“Plaudits to ... the spot-on chorus” i News
"a ferocious male chorus” The Times
