The joy of discovery: Royal Ballet and Opera’s Jette Parker Artists

Florence Lockheart
Monday, May 19, 2025

Talent is not limited to those with the means to cultivate it, which is why the team behind RBO’s JPA programme travels the world to discover talented young singers in their natural habitat. Florence Lockheart sits down with programme founder David Gowland and participants Isabela Díaz and Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono to talk about how the scheme cultivates its ‘wildcard’ artists – without dimming their spark

There are no limits: you take the classes you want and can handle. That's unique and doesn't exist in any other young artist programme' JPA scheme artist soprano Isabela Díaz alongside the current JPA scheme cohort (Image courtesy of RBO)
There are no limits: you take the classes you want and can handle. That's unique and doesn't exist in any other young artist programme' JPA scheme artist soprano Isabela Díaz alongside the current JPA scheme cohort (Image courtesy of RBO)

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