About The Cambridge Opera Collegium

The Cambridge Opera Collegium was founded in Cambridge by the British international opera singer Meeta Raval, with the aim of preserving the art form of Opera and the Operatitc voice. Through private performances, The Cambridge Opera Collegium seeks to Reconnect audiences with opera and the classical voice.

The Cambridge Opera collegium private performances feature emerging and established artists from exceptional young singers graduating from The United Kingdoms leading conservatoires to internationally experienced performers with distinguished operatic careers spanning decades on the world stages.

At the heart of the Collegium lies a deeper artistic purpose: the preservation of the operatic voice as a living tradition. Alongside its performances the Collegium also functions as a cultural membership society dedicated to the discussion, education, artistic exchange, and preservation of operatic traditions. Through lectures, masterclasses, performances and conversations with professionals from across the operatic world the Collegium aims to reconnect individuals with the living heritage of opera and the classical voice.

Unlike painting, sculpture or architecture the great traditions of singing cannot be physically held, preserved in glass or placed within a museum. They exist only through transmission from singer to singer, teacher to student, generation to generation. The collegium was founded from the belief that this extraordinary artistic inheritance shaped over centuries of human expression is profoundly important to our cultural heritage and to our human civilisation. Opera and the Operatic vocal traditions must now be protected and passed forward to the next generations.