Support ETO
Why support English Touring Opera?
English Touring Opera travels an amazing 4,400 kilometres each year (roughly one tenth of the circumference of the globe!) to bring top-quality opera to regional audiences around the UK.
The company reaches around 40,000 people per year via its touring programme of fully-staged opera and innovative education outreach work. For some of our audiences ETO’s visit might be the only opportunity that they get the chance to experience professional opera in their local area.
Although we are one of Arts Council England’s regularly-funded organisations we have an annual fundraising target of just under £500,000.
Your support can help us to meet some of the enormous costs faced by the company each year.
£1.5 million – the total spent by ETO each year on its performances
£215,000 – the amount spent on accommodation and meals for singers and players each year
£70,000 – the amount ETO spends per year on costumes
£12,000 – the cost of the 456 music scores used the each year by more than 150 singers and players
£1,000 – the cost of just 12 minutes of an ETO performance
We can only continue to achieve all that we do thanks to the involvement and enthusiasm of our supporters. Without this help much of our work would not be possible.
There are many ways to support English Touring Opera:
If you would like to find out how you can support English Touring Opera please contact Henriette or Sarah on 020 7833 2555.