As I speak at opera and music club meetings around the country, I am often asked 'How do you choose the operas?', or even 'Why did you choose those operas?'

On Friday 2 December, friends and family of the Turtle Song group arrived at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, to watch the final performance of ‘Songs from the Sea’.

After 9 weeks of meeting together and creating new songs, the group finally had the chance to show their work to those who love them. The concert was lovely and enjoyed by both the audience and the group. It was really nice to hear from the families of the participants, and to know how much this project has really made a difference in their lives.

I really enjoyed being a part of this project and seeing the group develop each week, they had so much fun singing and being creative together.

Katy Goodson, Education Intern

This week was the last creative session for Turtle Song, our project for dementia and Alzheimer’s sufferers and their carers.

ETO is currently working with Turtle Key Arts on Turtle Song, a project for dementia and Alzheimer’s suffers and their carers in Cambridge...

We have just completed the most concentrated and complicated section of the autumn tour so far – Cambridge, Lincoln, Harrogate and High Wycombe – with little or no time to come home between shows to replenish the supply of socks and other essentials!

We have had a mixture of acoustics to contend with: from the pleasant-sounding ‘secret’ pit of the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge (so deep we were utterly invisible), where we could play as loudly as we liked without fear of being overwhelming, to the delicate and exposed sound in Lincoln’s charming little theatre, where we played in full view of the audience and, to our delight, the stage.

It was at Lincoln Theatre Royal that we first saw much of what is involved in the production of The Fairy Queen, and could at last see (with...