The Opera Group
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About The Opera Group
The Opera Group is committed to creating innovative music theatre that enriches the lives of its audiences, artists and participants and to sharing this work with audiences throughout the UK.
The Opera Group is an Associate Company of the Young Vic theatre.
The Opera Group has built a reputation for an innovative and physical approach to theatre alongside the highest musical standards. The company’s work is characterised by vibrant theatricality and vivid story-telling which comes to fruition in the moment of live performance. Two new productions are created each year, complemented by participatory, education and development activity that explores the future of the art-form and develops its potential relationship with existing and new audiences. In touring the company seeks to work with national and international partners who share the company’s desire to engage with the widest possible audience.
Recent projects include the world premiere of Edwards Rushton’s The Shops, a Selfridges’ commission of two site-specific mini-operas The Singing Shop, Jonathan Dove’s The Enchanted Pig with the Young Vic, Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert at the Royal Opera House and on tour, Edward Rushton’s Birds. Barks. Bones. at Cheltenham Festival and the Royal Opera House in July 2004 (Winner Best Stage Work at British Composer Awards), the world premiere of Ed Hughes’ The Birds in collaboration with vocal ensemble I Fagiolini and touring productions of Shostakovich’s The Nose, Bernstein’s Candide and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera.
“It’s incredibly rare to see ensemble work of this level in the theatre, let alone an opera with virtuoso singing included”
The Times
“The Opera Group made the manic score sound like an established repertoire masterpiece.”
The Daily Telegraph
“The stunningly gifted young Opera Group… [in] the presentation of a remarkably assured and compelling new one-acter from a youthful composer of immense gifts, Edward Rushton.”
The Birmingham Post -->