Next step to Opera!

I have just been accepted into an Artist Diploma in Opera!!!

While completing my MPerf in Voice, I am preparing to take the next step to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama's Opera Course. This course is like a Young Artist Programme which is much harder to get into, with fully-staged operas and rigorous industry training. This is my DREAM course, and I am over the moon to have been accepted!!! But to secure my place in this prestigious course, I need to pay a deposit by July 2025.

I also have many other significant costs for the remainder of this academic year, including:

- the final instalments of my course and accommodation fees

- my compulsory international Student Loan repayment

- and, of course, my UK living costs!

My full fees will be much, MUCH higher than this amount, but I am yet to find out the school's decisions on scholarship allocation. So in the meantime, I am raising funds for my "inbetween" costs, so I can stay afloat for the rest of this academic year. My previous Summer job really helped with these, and I am currently looking for more work. But my study and rehearsal schedules are very full-on, so any amount of help would be much appreciated.

There will be another exciting fundraiser in due course - watch this space!

Photo credit: David Monteith-Hodge @photographise