Having worked in special events in Canada followed by 15 years as press officer for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Rita established herself as a freelance arts administrator and PR consultant in 2010.  She has subsequently undertaken numerous projects for boutique opera companies and individual artists in the world of classical music and opera, managed the British soprano Nadine Benjamin MBE since 2014, and worked as General Manager for Leeds Lieder, an international song festival based in Leeds, as well as a recital series for young musicians at Sledmere House in Yorkshire.

 For The Attingham Trust, Rita has worked as coordinator for the Summer School (2014-17), French Eighteenth-Century Studies (2018), five Study Programmes (Rome and Naples 2017, 2019, ‘The Horse and the Country House’ 2018, ‘The Country House in Ireland ‘2022, ‘Venice and the Veneto’ 2023) and two short courses ‘From College Library to Country House’ 2022 and ‘Court Culture and the Horse, 1700-1900′.