The first Carl Rosa Trust Symposium was held on Saturday 19 November 2016, at the Hornby Library. About a dozen delegates attended – all specialists in their fields – and after short presentations from the Trustees, various items from the Archive were brought out for examination. A great deal of discussion ensued, which was exactly what we wanted. We were keen to show something of the nature of the archive, with a view to permitting its use as a research resource, or as a subject for research in its own right.
In the afternoon, students from Liverpool Hope University gave a short recital, the programme drawn from items regularly performed by the Carl Rosa Company. They were superbly accompanied by David Walters, senior lecturer and principal accompanist at the University.