New Chamber Opera

[1] It specialises in the fields of chamber opera and music theatre, and produces rarely performed works from the Baroque era to the present.

Appearances outside Oxford have included concerts and productions at the Tudeley and Southwark Festivals, several performances at London's South Bank Centre, and at the National Gallery.

With its contemporary music ensemble Phoenix, it has performed several pieces of twentieth-century music theatre including Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King, Vessalii Icones, Notre Dames des Fleurs, and Miss Donnithorne's Maggot, and Harrison Birtwistle's Down by the Greenwood Side.

The company also operates the New Chamber Opera Studio,[5] which stages two student productions annually and a recital series of twenty-four concerts in which they take part.

Recent productions have included Orpheus in the Underworld, by Offenbach, in 2012[6] and La Calisto, by Francesco Cavalli, in 2014[7] In 2016, the company gave the world premiere of "Rothschild's Violin" by Marco Galvani in the antechapel of Oxford's New College.

The visiting professors have included Thomas Allen, Graham Vick, John Eliot Gardiner, Renée Fleming, Jane Glover, and Katie Mitchell.