2021
A girl plays in the field near the old wood with her friends. Their toy plane crashes into the trees, but they don't dare enter, as the woods are strange and dangerous, and they return home empty-handed. But that night, during the dark days of 2020, the little girl has a dream about the Beast that lives in the wood...
2019
A spectacular take on the legends of Prometheus and Pandora, featuring brilliant singers, powerful music, and the voices of 1,000 volunteers.
Passion, politics, tragedy, comedy, revolution and anarchy: unmissable.
Life Stories: 2015, 2016
MOSCOW, 2020: An old man wakes amid the filth and detritus of early 21st century consumerism. Who is he? Why is he sleeping here? What causes the fever that plagues his mind? His last day is upon him. Before the final judgement we hear his tale, told through the questions and exclamations of his past, seared into his mind as his life unwinds.
Life Stories: 2015, 2016
AN ENGLISH ESTATE, 1720: A young woman stumbles into a secret cellar, the faded trappings of past glory decaying all around. Who is she? Why does she collapse, exhausted, craving sleep? Her final moments have arrived. We hear her tale, of riches and love won and lost, and we learn the terrible truth of the price of her struggle to survive.
2014
A brilliant yet impoverished artist is caught between jealous and wealthy rivals and his crooked agent — defended only by his beautiful, vulnerable fiancée and muse...
2012, 2013
Concerning the Suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison, who died in June 1913 while protesting at Epsom, under the hoofs of the King’s horse: a moving opera based on a landmark moment in history
2008, 2013
“It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals” — The Rosenhan Experiment is an opera based on David Rosenhan’s landmark 1972 paper, On Being Sane In Insane Places
2010
An allegorical comedy – in French – about an artisan baker, Louis, who falls asleep dreaming of all the kinds of bread he can make. His dreams turn to nightmares and he is attacked by two phantoms, Marie and Antoinette...
2009, 2012
A grieving woman gradually comes to terms with the loss of her late husband, until the moment she feels ready to take another lover, when guilt, shame, and the zombie-like memory of her husband and even his mother overwhelm her. An operatic dramatisation of the poem by Carol Ann Duffy
2009
Created for the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species, this opera recounts Darwin’s five-year voyage on HMS Beagle, drawing on the dramatic, vivid, nostalgic and ultimately optimistic text of Darwin’s diaries
2007
“Remember the two-way televisions in George Orwell’s 1984? The ones which watched you back? Well the country which brought Orwell into the world has made his nightmare follow into the world after him” — a tangled conspiracy theory, woven from early Usenet archives, commissioned by The London Design Festival
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