Core Team
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Jenny Miller - Founder and Outreach Director
A National Opera Studio alumnus, Jenny Miller sang as a soloist for Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, ENO and ROH before moving to dramatic soprano repertoire, singing Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, the title role in Puccini’s Tosca, and the Witch In Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel for Longborough Festival Opera, and developing a parallel career as a director.
Her directing credits include Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, Krasa’s Brundibar, a touring production of L’Incoronazione Di Poppea (Complete Singer), and ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ (based on 17th century solo cantatas) which also toured London and the South East.
Jenny directed Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, and Die Zauberflote, Rinaldo, Xerxes, and Alcina, L’Incoronazione di Poppea and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena for Longborough Festival Opera, also directing young singers in a touring version of these productions for venues in South East England, and Bizet’s Pearl Fishers for Opera South East. She founded Barefoot Opera in 2011 and has worked to create a style and methodology to impart to young professional singers ever since.
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Anthony Flaum - Artistic Director
Anthony is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music & the National Opera Studio. He has sung principal roles with many of the UK’s major opera companies – English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Grange Park Opera, Buxton Opera Festival, Northern Ireland Opera, Iford Arts, Nevill Holt Opera and Opera Della Luna amongst others. He began his career in the original Olivier award-winning production of La bohème as Rodolfo for OperaUpClose in 2009. He made his acting debut to much critical acclaim in King Lear alongside Sir John Tomlinson & Sir Thomas Allen at The Grange Festival in 2021 and The Soldier’s Tale at Edinburgh International Festival with Sir Thomas Allen. Most recently, he sang Cavaradossi in Becoming Tosca (Prologue Opera) and Hillaire Belloc in Cautionary Tales – a new musical play (dir. Keith Warner) and looks forward to his debut at The Crucible, Sheffield in Jonathan Dove’s opera Monster in the Maze singing the role of Theseus.
He enjoys performing in all sorts of environs – from the stage, to private functions, to educational outreach to celebrated orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic. Being opera-preneurial is important to him and therefore, he recently founded his own opera theatre company Prologue Opera in his hometown of Hastings and also began producing for Barefoot Opera in 2023 before taking on his current role in 2024.
He enjoys cooking, travel, photography, archaeology, paragliding and sea-glass hunting with his family. He began his professional life in banking!
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Charlotte Tingley - Marketing Manager
Charlotte is a classically trained vocalist, stage manager, producer and marketer, who has worked in a variety of roles in theatre, opera, film and music.
Charlotte started her career in the film industry, working her way up to Assistant Director and Producer on a handful of feature films. This then led to a switch into live performance where the film work turned to the stage. Starting out as Assistant Producer for a pantomime in Rye which has since then grown into regular Stage Manager roles throughout Sussex. Charlotte has a passion for music and professionally sings in the local area. She has performed in St James Theatre London, on BBC, ITV, and in a wide range of Kent, Sussex and London venues.
Having worked on and off the stage she is the perfect blend to take on any challenge Barefoot Opera might throw at her.
Charlotte loves photography, open water diving, board games, family days out and spending time with her three cats.
