The Onion:
Shameless Singing
A three-hour private workshop for serious singers. Six people. One room. London.
It addresses the layer that no amount of technique alone reaches: what lives in the body as tension, in the breath as constriction, in the gap between what you know and what the audience hears.
This is not a masterclass. No one in this room is assessing, comparing, or evaluating. The Singer State — free, full, instinctive expression — does not arrive through the pursuit of perfection. It arrives when that pursuit is set down. The Onion creates the conditions for that to happen.
Led by tenor Luis Chapa — Metropolitan Opera, thirty years at the highest levels of operatic performance — the session works directly with breath, voice, and the somatic tools that move a singer toward that freedom.
For the serious singer at the threshold — conservatoire, post-conservatoire, or self-formed — who is not yet in the profession.
- Dates
- June 12, 19, and 26, 2026
- Format
- Two sessions per day
- Capacity
- Six singers per session
- Location
- Private studio, London
- Investment
- £120 per session
Luis Chapa
Luis Chapa has sung at the Metropolitan Opera House and the greatest houses of Europe and the Americas, in roles such as Otello, Samson, Aïda, and Calaf — thirty years at the level where the margin between training and full expression is measured not in technique, but in freedom.
From the 2025 Workshop
I found the work that we did on my aria to be transformative. It was especially helpful to involve the others directly in my performance, like one would in a scene. The Onion has reminded me how invaluable this work is and helped me realise my excitement for what’s to come.
Alice Howell, 2025
The workshop wonderfully combined deep focus and awakening the body, mind, breath, and voice as a fully functioning interconnected whole. It was led in an extremely supportive, relaxed and judgement-free way — and allowed all the singers to go into vulnerable places and share freely the passion and love for singing with each other.
Miriam Miskovska, 2025
By the time we came out of the first part, there was already a good sense of gentle support within the group. Seeing other people sing made me feel that singing is such a beautiful and brave thing to do. To see fellow travellers — it was very heartwarming and encouraging.
Wakana, 2025