First Opera Group in residence

Award-winning production company The Opera Group has commenced a groundbreaking three-year residency at the Department of Music at King's College London. The partnership was brokered by King's Business. The Opera Group has developed a new model of researching and incubating the creation of new opera projects in partnership with non-arts organisations. The first project in this new model, The Lion's Face , was developed with the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) and staged at the Royal Opera House in July 2010, following a hugely successful UK tour. This gave a national platform to the Alzheimer's research of IoP. The Opera Group has also collaborated with the Department of Music on Into the Little Hill , which George Benjamin, Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King's, composed and conducted. King's Business and academic colleagues have developed the next phase of collaboration by arranging for the company to reside in the Department of Music.