Our Fundraising Campaigns

Sttanford | Shamus O’Brien

We are delighted to announce that we are recording Charles Villiers Stanford’s most popular opera, Shamus O’Brien. This will be a joint project with BBC Radio 3, scheduled for recording in 2022 (dependent upon funding). The orchestra will be the BBC Concert Orchestra, and we are thrilled that the acclaimed conductor David Parry has agreed to direct it.

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Macfarren | The Soldier’s Legacy

We are delighted to announce that we have now recorded The Soldier’s Legacy by George Alexander Macfarren. After several delays for COVID safety, the recording took place at St Thomas’ Stockport in December.

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| Retrospect Opera

We’re funded by grant-awarding bodies, by major individual sponsors, but above all, by you! We’re very grateful to everyone who believes this music is worth bringing alive again, and who is able to help us achieve our aims.

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We are so grateful for all our supporters! Thank you!

Shamus O’Brien Supporters

We are so grateful to the following people who have supported this project:

Stanford Friends | 1 anonymous donor | Michael Cooke (Life Member) | Jamie Findlay (Life Member) | John Grimshaw (Life Member) | Judith Waddicor (Patron)

Stanford Club Members | Øyvind Erik Jensen (Life Member) | Andrew Lamb (Life Member) | Michael Symes

Stanford Sponsors |  1 anonymous donor | The Edgar Bainton Society | David Brown | Jeremy Dibble | Jacqueline Fujita | John Groves | The William Hurlstone Society | Piet de Jong | Keiko Shirakawa | Tony Strangis

Stanford Supporters | Russell Burdekin | Clive Paget | Christopher Redwood

The Soldier’s Legacy Supporters

We are so grateful to the following people who have supported this project:

Legacy Friends | 1 anonymous donor | The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust | The Ida Carroll Trust | The Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund | The Bernarr Rainbow Trust | The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society | Kaori Ashizu (Life Member) | Vint Cerf (Life Member) | Michael Cooke (Life Member) | David Harman (Life Member) | Michael Hartnall (Life Member) | Maria Serafica (Life Member) | Nicholas Temperley (Patron) | Judith Waddicor (Life Member)

Legacy Hussars | 1 anonymous donor | Akiko Ashizu | Helen Brown | Christine Clark | Jamie Findlay | Jacqueline Fujita | Øyvind Erik Jensen (Life Member) | Piet de Jong | Andrew Lamb (Life Member) | Michael Sharp | Simon Shearburn | Keiko Shirakawa | Lord Stafford | Allan Sutcliffe | Michael Symes | Roger Turner (Life Member)

Legacy Sponsors | 2 anonymous donors | Meg Arai | Denis Brewer | Russell Burdekin | Guy and Christine Cavenagh-Mainwaring | Hugh and Alison Chandler | Thomas Crochunis | Tim Dowling | Sarah Elsom | Christina Fuhrmann | Dick Hill | Kathryn Kimball | Yoriko Kitagawa | Yukako Kurose | Yoshio Nishide | Michael O’Shaughnessy | Derek Scott | Tony Strangis | Timothy Whelan

Legacy Supporters | Raymond Barrett | Yoshico Cato | Masako Fujie | Felicity Greenland | Eiichi Hara | Stephen Hehir | Natsuko Hirakura | Masae Kawatsu | Keiko Kiriyama | Joe Law | Yuko Otagaki | Richard and Mary Rolton | Carol Sherwin | Peter Shrubb | Patricia Wiltshire

The Wags Supporters

The work of Retrospect Opera is supported by generous donations from individuals, trusts and foundations.  Our work couldn’t take place without the support of hundreds of Retrospect Opera Supporters.  Why not join this happy and far-seeing throng? Visit the Support page to support Retrospect Opera!

The recording of The Wags was supported by a generous grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

 

Retrospect Opera Supporters

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Fête Galante Supporters

Fête Galante Friends | Ambache Charitable Trust | The Ida Carroll Trust | RVW Trust | Mariann Steegmann Foundation | Woking Borough Council | 2 anonymous donors | Vint Cerf (Life Member) | The Rebecca Clarke Society | Michael Cooke | the late Colin Craig | Peter and Susan Graham | David Harman  | Alex Hood | Øyvind Erik Jensen (Life Member) | Stephen Locke | Maria Serafica (Life Member) | Nicholas Temperley (Patron) | Roger Turner (Life Member) | Judith Waddicor (Life Member) | Chris Wiley

Fête Galante Masqueraders | 1 anonymous donor | Stephen Banfield | Gavin Bantock | David Bennett | Denis Brewer | Helen Brown | Tania Chen | Jerry Cowhig | Peter Dale | Claire Davison | Jamie Findlay | Stephen Gill | John Gray and Karen Walford | Helen Pankhurst | Julian Rushton | Nicole Russell | Jan Smaczny | Elaine Sperber | the late John Tyrrell | Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy | Elizabeth Wood | Martin Yates

Fête Galante Sponsors | 2 anonymous donors | Drew Adams | Michael Allis | Kaori Ashizu | Jory Bennett | Felicity Clark | Thomas Crochunis | Robin Darwall-Smith and Peter Gilliver | Jessica Derventzis | John Donne Society of America | Paul Douglass | Tim Dowling | Lee Eiseman | Pippa Jameson Evans | Federica Fortunato | Hikaru Fujii | Jacqueline Fujita | In memory of Richard Gravil | Siân Griffiths | Simon Hopkins | George Hyde | Helen and | Stanley Ireland | Noriko Ishizuka | Piet de Jong | Mary and the late John Joubert | Manuel Juette | Elizabeth Kertesz | Kathryn Kimball | Yoriko Kitagawa | Yukako Kurose | Robert van Mackelenberg | Ayako Mizuo | Mao Nishida | Sayaka Okumura | Lewis Orchard | Mali Abbiss Phillips | Kate Rhodes | Christopher Reed | Stefano Rozzoni | S&E Regional council, TUC | Michael Sharp | Keiko Shirakawa | Tony Strangis | Takako Tanaka | John Taylor | Aidan Thomson | Woking Golf Club | Susan Wollenberg | International Virginia Woolf Society

Fête Galante Supporters | 4 anonymous donors | Erica Aso | Joy Bounds | Victoria Burke | Jos Carr | Judith Chaffee | David Chambers | Alain Chevalier | Peter Christie | Norman Croucher | Bill Davy | Paola Degli Esposti | The Farnham Society | Mary Froebel | Toshiko Hayashida | Dick Hill | Didi Hopkins | Reiko Ishikawa | Setsu Itoh | Michael Jubb | Megumi Kato | Takeshi Kawashima | Masae Kawatsu | Keiko Kiriyama | Leanne Langley | David Langlois | Ian Leslie and Valerie Lewis | Hogara Matsumoto | Tomomi Minamoto | Anna Molesworth | Nobuya Monta | Colin Morris | Tetsuhito Motoyama | Lawrence Napper | Hilary Nicholls | Yoshiyuki Notohara | Michael O’Shaughnessy | Motoko Ota | Barnaby Ralph | Ann Ridler | Richard and Mary Rolton | John Rowe | Christine Flint Sato | Derek Scott | Yasuko Shiojiri | Mike Smyth | Surrey Archaeological Society | Atsuko Suzuki | Anthony Thorley | Zvi Triger | Kaoru Urano | Jim Westhead | Graham and Pauline Wiley | Woking History Society | Tae Yamamoto | Erika Yoshida

The Jubilee Supporters

Dibdin Jubilee Friends | 2 anonymous donors | The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust | The Ida Carroll Trust | The Finchcocks Charity | The Bernarr Rainbow Trust | The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead | Kaori Ashizu | Vint Cerf (Life Member) | Jamie Findlay | Garrick England | The Rt Hon the Lord Heseltine and Lady Heseltine (Life Members) | Jade Sceptre | Maria Serafica (Life Member) | Roger Turner (Life Member) | Judith Waddicor (Life Member)

Retrospect Shakespeareans | 1 anonymous donor | Meg Arai | Mark Auburn | Gavin Bantock | Steve Bartlett | The British Association for Romantic Studies | Colin Craig | Roger Crowther | John Cunningham | Paul Durrant | David Fairer | Jacqueline Fujita | Garrick’s | Temple to Shakespeare Trust | Natsuko Hirakura | Peter Holbrook | Øyvind Erik Jensen (Life Member) | Piet de Jong | Kathryn Kimball | Yukako Kurose | Lewis Lloyd | Ivan Moseley | North West Music Trust | Lois Potter | Loren Rothschild | Michael Sharp | Sunday Shakespeare Society | Christopher Simons | Michael Symes

Dibdin Jubilee Sponsors | 1 anonymous donor | Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey | Robert Bearman | Amanda Weldy Boyd | Vladimir Brljak | Yoshico Cato | Hugh and Alison Chandler | Sandra Clark | Colin Coleman | Michael Dobson | Charlie Fink | Hiroyasu Fujisawa | Garrick Capital | Garrick Communications | John Garrick | Le Garrick Restaurant | Penny Gay | Stephen Gill | Todd Gilman | Siân Griffiths | Harriet Guest | Eiichi Hara | Noriyuki Harada | Paul Harvey and Harumi Takemura | Teiko Hatsui | Cynthia Hawes | Dick Hill | Graham Holderness | Peter Holland | Derek Hughes | Arata Ide | Miki Iwata | Shoichiro Kawai | Takeshi Kawashima | Masae Kawatsu | Yoriko Kitagawa | Junji Kobayashi | Tomonari Kuwayama | Isaac Land | Chris Laoutaris | Sue Lowe | Malcolm Lynde | Robert van Mackelenberg | Sumiko Maehara | Kouichi Matsumoto | Gordon McMullan | Mari Mizuno | Tomoya Oda | Michael O’Shaughnessy | Yuko Otagaki | Peter Otto | Reiko Oya | Deborah Pfuntner | Eric Rasmussen | Robert Reynolds | John Rowe | Peter Sabor | Takao Saijo | John Severn | Yasuko Shiojiri | Keiko Shirakawa | Simon Smith | Janet Snowman | Tony Strangis | Masa-aki Tatsuki | Nicholas Temperley | Emiko Toyoda | Yuichi Tsukada | Alexander Waugh | Anne Williams | Michael Witmore | Tae Yamamoto

Dibdin Jubilee Supporters | 1 anonymous donor | Nobuhiko Akamatsu | Gefen Bar-On Santor | Tom Bishop | Denis Brewer | Thomas Crochunis | Paul Douglass | James Engell | Paola Degli Esposti | Alison Findlay | Masako Fujie | Daniel Gallimore | Robin Ganev | Heather Glen | Brean Hammond | Roger Hansford | Li-Hsin Hsu | Takao Imamura | Mamiko Katayama | Sae Kitamura | Ichiro Koguchi | Nanako Konoshima | Michael John Kooy | Douglas Lanier | The Lichfield Players | J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC | Irena Makaryk | Zoltán Márkus | Steve McAdam | Tomomi Minamoto | Tetsuhito Motoyama | Miki Nakamura | Noriko Naohara | Yoshio Nishide | Kensei Nishikawa | Joseph Ortiz | David O’Shaughnessy | Roger Pringle | Paul Rice | Miwa Saito | Katherine Scheil | James Shapiro | Peter Shrubb | Emma Smith | Rie Smithers | Jane Sutherland | Hideko Tsuji | Kohei Uchimaru | Christopher Wain | Jennifer and Graham Weeks | Yuzo Yamada | Shinji Yamamoto

Raymond and Agnes Supporters

Loder Friends | 3 anonymous donors | The Ida Carroll Trust | The Bernarr Rainbow Trust | The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society | The Wyfold Charitable Trust | Akiko Ashizu | Kaori Ashizu | Christine Clark | Andrew Clarke (Life Member) | Pam and Tony Dignum | John Farmer (Patron) | Brian and Avril Godfrey | Peter Graham (Life Member) | Dave Green (Life Member) | Peter Gregory | Siân Griffiths | David Harman (Life Member) | Michael Hartnall (Life Member) | Alex Hood | Andrew Lamb (Life Member) | John and Susie Oxlade | Maria Serafica (Life Member) | Nicholas Temperley (Patron) | Roger Turner (Life Member) | Judith Waddicor (Life Member)

Loder Angels | Elizabeth Cooper | Jacqueline Fujita | Carole Hooper | Øyvind Erik Jensen (Life Member) | Mark Lussier | Kaori Mizuno | Christopher Redwood | Julian Rushton | Michael Sharp | John Strachan | Martin T. Yates

Loder Sponsors  | 2 anonymous donors | Kenichi Akishino | Naoki Arizono | Andrew Ashbee | Allan Atlas | Stephen Banfield | Christina Bashford | Jos Carr | William Christie | Nym Cooke | Norman Croucher | Peter Dale | Jeremy Dibble | Therese Ellsworth | Giles Enders | David Golby | Lizie Goldwasser | Teiko Hatsui | Itsuyo Higashinaka | Dick Hill | Natsuko Hirakura | Peter Horton | Derek Hughes | Piet de Jong | Michael Jubb | Noriko Kato | Masayo Kobayashi | Corinne Langston and Desmond Scott | Ian Leslie and Valerie Lewis | Robert van Mackelenberg | Susan Murphy | Bruno Nettl | Howard and Jean Osborn | Joel Pace | Roger Parker | Deborah Pfuntner | David Punter | Paul Rodmell | Derek B. Scott | Christopher Simons | Janet Snowman | Ruth Solie | Tony Strangis | Julja Szuster | Michael Talbot | John Tyrrell | Dorothy de Val | Yoshimi Wajima | Dorothy Williams | David Wood

Loder Supporters | 4 anonymous donors | Michael Allis | Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey | Nick Barnard | Trevor Barr | George Biddlecombe | Paul Blake | Helen Boyles | Antonella Braida | Russell Burdekin | Frederick Burwick | Richard Carder | Philip Carli | Stephen Carter | Yoshico Cato | David Chambers | Hugh and Alison Chandler | Shun-liang Chao | Peter Cheyne | Eric Christen | Rachel Cowgill | Michael Crane | David Davies | Delius Society (Philadelphia) | Roderic Dunnett | John France | David Freedman | Christina Fuhrmann | Masako Fujie | Nick Fuller | Daniel Gallimore | Felicity Greenland | Harriet Guest | Eiichi Hara | Hiroshi Harata | Paul Hartle | Paul Harvey and Harumi Takemura | Ichiro Hayashi | Kunihiko Hayashi | Minae Hosokawa | Li-Hsin Hsu | The late Pat Hurst | Keiko Inokuma | Margaret Ives | Harry Johnstone | Nanako Konoshima Kanamori | Kazumi Kanatsu | Masumichi Kanaya | Misuzu Kanno | Yorimichi Kasahara | Hisaka Kato | Masae Kawatsu | Kathryn Kimball | Yuko Kitano | Hidemi Kobayashi | Ichiro Koguchi | Hugh J. Macdonald | Nick Manzi | Kyoko Matsuyama | Andrew Mayor | Charles McGuire | Alison Mero | Naomi Miki | Tomomi Minamoto | Keiko Miyakita | Nobuya Monta | Ken Nakagawa | Hisayo Nakashima | Noriko Naohara | Mariko Nishitani | Yoshiyuki Notohara | Kaz Oishi | Hiroki Okamoto | Alison Oliphant | Yu Onuma | Joseph Ortiz | Michael O’Shaughnessy | Peter Otto | Colin Oxenforth | Gordon Pullin | Richard and Mary Rolton | Matthew Rowney | Takao Saijo | Nobuyoshi Saito | Simon Sanada | Susan Sawyer | Lew and Josie Schneider | John Sheppard | Hiroko Shimazaki | Masaya Shimokusu | Matthew Spring | Mari Suzuki | Masashi and Mitsuko Suzuki | Fumie Tamai | Minne Tanaka | Ve-Yin Tee | Anthony Thorley | Emiko Toyoda | David Vallins | James Vigus | Ayako Wada | The Wagner Journal | Timothy Whelan | Christopher Wiley | Pamela Woof | Adrian Wright | Saeko Yoshikawa | Remembering Percy Young

The Wreckers Supporters

Christmas Gambols Supporters

Christmas Gambols Friends | 1 anonymous donor | The Ida Carroll Trust | The Rt Hon the Lord Heseltine and Lady Heseltine (Life Members) | Howard King | Sue Lowe | Maria Serafica (Life Member) | Roger Turner (Life Member) | Judith Waddicor (Life Member)

Christmas Gambollers | Jeremy Barlow | Frederick Burwick | Jane Girdham | Eiichi Hara | Øyvind Erik Jensen (Life Member) | Deborah Pfuntner | Michael Sharp | Janet Snowman | Strictly Jane Austen Tours | Allan Sutcliffe | Gillen Wood |

Christmas Gambols Sponsors | Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey | Karen Arrandale | Kaori Ashizu | Paul Blake | Hugh and Alison Chandler | Tania Chen | Penelope Corfield | John Dibdin | Paul Douglass | Stephen Gill | Todd Gilman | Teiko Hatsui | Richard Haynes | Dick Hill | Natsuko Hirakura | Derek Hughes and Janet Todd | Yuki Isaka | Piet de Jong | Mamiko Katayama | Kathryn Kimball | Ichiro Koguchi | Michael John Kooy | Dame Felicity Lott | J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC | Mark Lussier | Robert van Mackelenberg | Kaori Mizuno | Tomoya and Haruko Oda | Peter Otto | Seamus Perry | Andrew Pinnock | Robert Reynolds | Leslie Ritchie | David Shuker | Tony Strangis | Carl Thompson | Hirohisa and Akane Tsuji | Min Wild | Duncan Wu

Christmas Gambols Supporters | 1 anonymous donor | Miharu Abe | The Jane Austen Society of Australia | Graydon Beeks | Andrew Bennett | Jacqueline Bratton | Jonathan Brewer | Gavin Budge | Sally Bushell | Eric Christen | Steve Clark | Colin Coleman | Emma Dibdin | Pam and Tony Dignum | Jamie Findlay | Christina Fuhrmann | Hikaru Fujii | Noriko Fujino | Chikako Fukuoka | Harriet Guest | Keith Hanley | Hiroshi Harata | Ellen T. Harris | Masayo Hasegawa | Judith Hawley | Takao Imamura | Felicity James | Nanako Konoshima Kanamori | Kazumi Kanatsu | Yorimichi Kasahara | Noriko Kato | David Kennerley | Chiharu Kikuta | Hidemi Kobayashi | Mark Lockett | April London | Jon Mee | Meiko O’Halloran and Jon Quayle | Michael O’Neill | Joseph Ortiz | David O’Shaughnessy | Michael O’Shaughnessy | Joel Pace | Judith Page | Judith Pascoe | Lynda Pratt | Nicholas Roe | David and Sheri Rollison | Simon Sanada | Toru Sasaki | Rebecca Shaw | Christopher Simons | Jane Sutherland | Masashi and Mitsuko Suzuki | Ruriko Suzuki | Sae Takeuchi | Fiona Tomkinson | Neil Vickers | Ayako Wada | Alex Watson | Irene Wiltshire | Yasuhiko Yoshida | Saeko Yoshikawa

Pickwick Supporters

Pickwick Friends | 1 anonymous donor | Robert Dean | The Inchcape Foundation | The City Pickwick Club | Mr Pickwick Pubs of Switzerland | The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society | Allan Sutcliffe | Judith Waddicor (Life Member)

Pickwick Club Members | Geoffrey Burnand | William Burnand | Alison and Hugh Chandler | Roger Crowther | The Dickens Fellowship | The Dickens Fellowship of Japan | Piet de Jong | Øyvind Erik Jensen (Life Member) | Ryota Kanayama | Andrew Lamb (Life Member) | Deborah Pfuntner | Doreen Reynolds | Janet Snowman | Keith and Valerie Thomas | Trinity College, Cambridge | Roger Turner (Life Member) | John Tyrrell | Karen Walford | Carolyn Williams

Pickwick Sponsor | 2 anonymous donors | Kaori Ashizu | Stephen Banfield | The Haarlem Branch of the Dickens Fellowship | The Dickens Project, University of California, Santa Cruz | The Worcester, MA, Branch of the Dickens Fellowship | Pippa Jameson Evans | Jamie Findlay | Stephen Gill | Ann de Groot-May | Eiichi Hara | Dick Hill | Michael Hollington | Chizu Imai | Keiko Inokuma | John Jordan | Keiko Kiriyama | Dave Lownds | Robert van Mackelenberg | Iain Mackenzie-Humphreys | Nick Manzi | Yasuhiko Matsumoto | Mitsu Mitsuoka | Takashi Nakamura | Pickwicks Club, Frankfurt | Michael Rogers | Takao Saijo | Paul Schlicke | Michael Sharp | Peter Shaw | Keiko Shirakawa | Christopher Simons | Michael Slater | Tony Strangis | Cindy Sughrue | Masa-aki Tatsuki | Takashi Terauchi | Takeshi Tottori

Pickwick Supporters | 1 anonymous supporter | Malcolm Andrews | Annie Ashizu | Nick Barnard | Pat Bishop | Paul Blake | Philip Bolton | Gordon Bottomley | Helen Boyles | Denis Brewer | Jonathan Brewer | Richard Cappuccio | Janice Carlisle | Centro Internazionale di Studi Riccardo Zandonai | Vincent Daniels | Brian Daubney | Rachael Davenhill | The Sheffield Branch of the Dickens Fellowship | Keith Easley | Katsuhiro Engetsu | Chikako Fukuoka | Jennifer Garrett | Robin Gordon-Powell | Michael Goron | Richard Gravil | John Groves | Silvain Guignard | Anthony Harding | Paul Harvey and Harumi Takemura | Masayo Hasegawa | Sayaka Hashizume | Mio Hatada | Brian Hayashi | Chieko Ichikawa | Alysa Imae | Yuki Isaka | William James | Stephen Jarvis | Kathleen Jefferson | Olaf Jubin | Kiyotaka Kai | Nanako Konoshima Kanamori | Yukio Kaneko | Masae Kawatsu | Haruno Kayama | Kathryn Kimball | Arthur Kincaid | Hugh Kirby | Robert Knott | Ichiro Koguchi | James Brooks Kuykendall | Samantha Landau | Kevin Malone | Barbara Manning | Edward Marx | Derrick McClure | Michael McHugh | Nancy Metz | Tomomi Minamoto | Ken Nakagawa | Yui Nakatsuma | Marc Napolitano | Midori Niino | Sari Nishigaki | Chie Okamoto | Michael O’Shaughnessy | Judith Page | Frances Paul | Cecilia Powell | Kate Rhodes | Mark Richardson | Ann Ridler | David Rycroft | Nobuyoshi Saito | Toru Sasaki | Marc Shepherd | John Sheppard | Peter Shrubb | J. Donald Smith | Mariko Sugahara | Sae Takeuchi | Fumie Tamai | Takanobu Tanaka | Maureen Tarbuck | Joanna Taylor | Randall Terhune | Fiona Tomkinson | Yuichi Tsukada | Nobumitsu Ukai | Sozo Umemiya | Mark Waddicor | Tomoya Watanabe | Patricia Welch | John Wellington | Moira Whelan | Irene Wiltshire | Adrian Wright | Tae Yamamoto | Mika Yamauchi | Aya Yatsugi | Weifang Ye | Akemi Yoshida | Mai Yoshimura