Education & Outreach
Robert Thicknesse
Speaking of his life as a composer, Benjamin Britten said that above all he wanted to be useful. It’s a remark that is often quoted, alongside grandiose slogans about ‘opera changing lives’, by opera managements to justify a world which can seem to exist for the benefit of a rather small social sector.
Beyond the plush productions of big opera houses, however, there’s another world where the idea of ‘usefulness’ can be more than a soundbite, and where genuine idealism engages with marginalised groups. Pimlico Opera’s work in prisons and Streetwise Opera’s projects with the homeless are well publicised; but I can almost guarantee you have never heard of the man who does more work with non-opera audiences – children, people living with dementia, community groups – around the whole country, on a full-time basis, than anyone else. He is Tim Yealland, the head of education at English Touring Opera (ETO), one of the great unsung heroes of the UK classical music scene.
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