46. Guy Withers: behind the scenes of Waterperry Opera Festival

This week on TMDTA, Becca and Hattie chat with Guy Withers, Artistic Director, founder and CEO of Waterperry Opera Festival, about this year's upcoming festival which will celebrate it's fifth anniversary with an innovative eight-day open-air collection of eight productions in Waterperry, Oxfordshire. As usual, Becca and Hattie want to know more about what's going on behind the shiny facade of such a successful festival and they chat with Guy about not only the festival's journey to fruition but also his personal experiences and how they have informed his current role. Guy shares with us the some of the trials and errors he's experienced whilst working at the festival and talks about them with such humility and such obvious passion for his work. Thank you Guy for your honesty and openness with us!Transcript for this episode“To celebrate our fifth anniversary as a festival, we have created an ambitious season of eight productions. Withreturning favourites, and exciting new ventures, our broad programme has something for everyone, with eachoffering as unique and thrilling as the next. We are taking artistic risks to create the exciting operatic experiencesthat will captivate the next generation of audiences as well as our loyal followers.Our focus this year as a company is creating new audiences for opera with inventive and accessible work, inspiringlocal young people with free tickets for those under 16, and developing emerging talent with our Young ArtistProgramme. We want to make sure there are no barriers to any young person enjoying or engaging with classicalmusic and opera.” - Guy Withers, Artistic Director & CEOWaterperry Opera Festival: https://www.waterperryoperafestival.co.ukThings Musicians Don't Talk About website: https://www.thingsmusiciansdonttalkabout.comSign up to our Patreon!TMDTA TwitterFacebookInstagramIf you would like to support our work, why not buy us a Kofi? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.