For our summer concert in 2017, Summertown Choral Society was joined by some of the finest young soloists in the country for an evening of music by operatic composers - an opportunity for the audience to close their eyes and think of La Scala, Milan, the Staatskapelle, Weimar, the Salle Herz, Paris, Salzburg Cathedral, or the valleys of Wales, and ponder Mozart's line from a letter of 1782: 'Opera to me comes before anything else.'