The Opera Makers

We have many exciting performances during our Summer Music Festival, this being one of them with @TheOperaMakers If you get your tickets now, you can receive a 10% discount using the code SOCIAL10 Book your tickets here - tickettailor.com/events/theoper…… #theoperamakers

The time has finally come to announce our programming for GRIMEBORN 2023! 📣 We’re delighted to be bringing back our renowned Summer Opera Festival, which makes both contemporary and classical opera accessible to all. 📸 @idilsukan Check out what’s on offer this Summer 👇

🌟 TURANDOT 🌟 📆 23-26 August @TheOperaMakers present a radical and unnervingly relevant reinterpretation of ‘Turandot’. A British East & Southeast Asian company confronts Puccini’s last opera, exposing the harmful tragedy of online obsession. 🎟️ arcolatheatre.com/?p=39224

Ten years of @stpaulsopera are being celebrated at @StPaulsSW4 on Friday 21st April - come and join the party! In 2014 we performed Puccini's Turandot. Tickets for the gala are available here: stpaulsopera.org/add-events.../… #opera #classicalmusicinclapham #clapham

Been having a great time this week with @TheOperaMakers devising a new version of ‘La Serva Padrona’ complete with puppet theatre and full ensemble of Punch and Judy characters!

Late-Romantic atmosphere & emotional turmoil: Ethel Smyth's Der Wald gets a rare outing from @TheOperaMakers, artistic director @BeccaAMarriott, music director @Panaretos_piano. My opera review: planethugill.com/2023/03/late-r…

So fun to hear forgotten music by women championed - and on the eve of the anniversary of being the first composition by a woman at the @MetOpera in 1902 (a trailblazer as the second was not ‘til 2016, the brilliant talk by academic @Chris_Wiley told us). Bravo @TheOperaMakers!

Fantastic evening at Smyth’s Der Wald presented by @TheOperaMakers with our own @Chris_Wiley giving a talk on the composer before hand!

SPO friends @TheOperaMakers Makers are in the final throes of preparation for Ethel Smyth's 'Der Wald', taking place at the Holy Sepulcre Church EC1A2DQ next Friday. Another production with LOADS of SPO performers. Rush to get tickets as they're fast disappearing.

Why are we so ashamed of things that are really good? My bit on opera: “If you starve something, run it down constantly, gradually reduce the provision of it so that few can afford it, it becomes “elitist”: a self-fulfilling prophecy…” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I am prouder than words can express of what @swap_ra achieved this weekend. What a high. 💛

Tois to @DavidButtPhilip for opening night #Rusalka at @RoyalOperaHouse We wish him well for a fantastic first night. He's with us this Thurs 23 Feb @StPaulsSW4 for his Masterclass - see his comment below: Ticket for the Masterclass at stpaulsopera.org/.../masterclas…...

Sharing information here about the short-notice cancellation of our recent concert in Florida:

@AnnaLuiseWagner @Ensemble_OrQ @cockpittheatre It was brilliant! Hugely well done to all. So glad my @morleycollege opera class decided to do an outing - much to discuss when we reconvene!

box office statements from the record-setting London premiere with her. "You are certainly a businesslike woman," Grau said. Source: archives.metoperafamily.org/imgs/DerWald.h… Follow us later today for some juicy reviews and reactions to Der Wald. #opera #derwald #femalecomposer #formidable

at 7 in the morning, phoned Grau’s hotel at 8, pleading that she had to catch the boat-train home at 11. Catch it she did, signed contract in hand. "I told him it was one act long and could fit on any sort of bill, in any kind of house." She brought clippings and...

@dameethelsmyth was by all accounts a formidable woman. The Metropolitan Opera archives paint this very vividly: "Miss Smyth … has attended all the rehearsals, has given to the singers minute directions, has advised with conductor Hertz on the proper reading of the score, ...