Joseph Calleja, The Jette Parker Young Artists, Garsington Opera, Glyndebourne Youth Opera Group, ROH Youth Opera Company, Royal Opera Chorus, All Together Opera, Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus, Emily Edmonds, Jennifer Davis, David Shipley

To mark the start of the 2016/17 Season, the Royal Opera House presents Out Loud, celebrating the power of song on a pop-up stage in Covent Garden Piazza.

Out Loud is a showcase of song performed by professional and non-professional singers which gives visitors to Covent Garden the opportunity to experience the power of singing through exceptional up-close performances and participation including a ‘Big Sing’ alongside members of the Royal Opera Chorus and a ‘Make a Scene’ workshop in which audience members form a chorus alongside singers on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.

Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja will perform at the one-day event. He also sings the role of Pollione in Bellini’s Norma, the opening production of The Royal Opera’s 2016/17 Season, which opens on Monday 12 September 2016 and is conducted by The Royal Opera’s Music Director Antonio Pappano.

Australian mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds, Irish soprano Jennifer Davis and British bass David Shipley, members of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, will sing extracts from Mozart’s Così fan tutte, which is performed at the Royal Opera House from Thursday 22 September until 19 October 2016.