Covent Garden chorus singer is ‘too young to retire’ at 64
mainThe Daily Telegraph today offers pension advice to Alison Place, who worked as a freelance opera singer since 1980. Hopefully, she won’t need to draw on the pension for many years hence.
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photo (in Manon): Neil Gillespie
Is the CG chorus not tenured?
She has said she is a ‘freelance singer’ – which means she is ‘self-employed’ and her contracts will be for each production only, on a ‘session-basis’, not a weekly salary. She is not a fulltime member of the ROH chorus.