ONE of the country’s most celebrated operatic artists has agreed to become the first patron of Salisbury Chamber Chorus.

Rosalind Plowright lives in Salisbury and has sung at nearly all the major international opera houses of the world with legendary colleagues such as Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.

Most recently, in June 2025, she performed in a new production of Cavalleria Rusticana for the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

She was awarded an OBE for her services to music in 2007.

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Rosalind’s first public engagement with the Chorus will be a public masterclass featuring members of the Chorus at The Medieval Hall, Salisbury on October 18.

She was invited to attend the Chorus’s Opera Gala concert at St Thomas’s Church in June.

Speaking about the event afterward, she said: “There are some very fine voices in the choir, and the choice of the pieces performed and the colours the choir created were both moving and uplifting.”

Salisbury Chamber Chorus was founded in 2010 to meet a demand from singers with trained voices who enjoy music of a more operatic style.

Members range from the complete amateur to professionals, and concerts take place locally, across the south of England and in London.

Tickets for the masterclass, to include canapés, are £20 (free for under-18s) from www.ticketsource. The event starts at 6pm.