Music & Community

Ludd & Isis by Ricard Taylor & Stephen Plaice and Hot House by Julian Grant & Stephen Plaice for the Royal Opera House

Tycho’s Dream by Luke Styles & Peter Cant for Glyndebourne

On Spital Fields by Jonathan Dove & Alasdair Middleton for Spitalfields Music

As well as these major productions, he has been involved in many smaller ones as well as numerous workshops and projects with the Royal Opera House, ENO, Opera North, The Barbican Centre, the LSO, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Glyndebourne and many more.

Right: Rehearsing the cast of The Bureau of Lost Things at Garsington with director Hazel Gould

Opera & classical music

Lea has worked extensively as a vocal animateur, workshop leader or chorus director with a huge variety of community groups, both adults and children, for many of the UK’s leading opera houses and classical music venues. Notable productions include:

The Shell Trial by Ellen Reid & Roxie Perkins for Dutch National Opera

Dalia by Roxana Panufnik & Jessica Duchen for Garsington Opera

Beached by Harvey Brough & Lee Hall for Opera North

Road Rage Orlando Gough & Richard Stilgoe for Garsington Opera

Left: Children’s chorus in The Shell Trial

Other community music

As well as classical music & opera, Lea has delivered courses and workshops in a wide variety of musical genres. These include Disney singalongs at the Barbican; the Big Big Sing for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games; corporate work with Mondegreen Leadership Ltd ; Youth Music Voices; a Karl Jenkins premiere at the Royal Albert Hall and many others.

Right: With a participant at a Big Big Sing event at the Royal Festival Hall

Lea has done a huge amount of work with children and young people in schools and in the wider community for organisations such as Sing Up, local music hubs, Youth Music, the South Bank Theatre, National Youth Theatre and so on.

Left: Leading 1000 young people in Karl Jenkins Rondo Latino at the Royal Albert Hall