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The Big Give - Soprano Natasha Agarwal interview has worked extensively on opera co-creation projects with children. Here, she discusses the numerous benefits this involvement brings to our youngest audience members... OperaUpClose is delighted to be joining the 2024 Big Give Christmas Challenge to raise funds for our next project for 3-5-year-olds, Opera for the Very Young - Stories through So...

OperaUpClose Riders to the Sea Touring UK January - March 2025 A man, full of unshed tears and haunted by the ghosts of his past, finds himself drawn back to his family home and the memory of a great loss.  Vaughan Williams’ and John Synge’s sung play Riders to the Sea tells the story of a family, Maurya, Bartley, Kathleen and Nora and a seemingly inevitable chain of events.  Partnered with a n...

OperaUpClose is delighted to be joining the 2024 Big Give Christmas Challenge to raise funds for our next project for 3-5-year-olds, Opera for the Very Young - Stories through Sound, inspired by David Wiesner’s magical picture book, Flotsam. The 2024 Big Give #ChristmasChallenge runs from midday on Tuesday 3 December to midday on Tuesday 10 December. Funds raised will support an extended series...

Summer Sweet & Sour A delicious cocktail of classics by Puccini, Mozart, Verdi and more, in sparkling English translations with a contemporary twist, performed by the UK’s brightest and best. A summer’s day. A picnic. And a story of five friends trying to make sense of life and love. Is it finally time to grow up? Told through brilliantly evocative music including the famous Habanera from Carme...

OperaUpClose is thrilled to share the new programme of reinvented classics by Vaughan Williams, Puccini and Richard Strauss. A series of three one-act operas reimagined for the modern world in thrilling new chamber orchestrations by some of the UK’s most exciting composers and writers. Artistic Director Flora McIntosh Producer/Photographer Grace Weltch DOP Kasra Firouzyar Cam Op Lance Penez Per...

Merry Christmas to one and all from OperaUpClose 🎄🎅🎁 Our office will be closed from Friday 22nd Dec until 2nd Jan 2024 for some much-needed peace (at last) 🧸🦉💫 See you next year 🤩

As the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge deadline nears (Tues 5th Dec 12pm), we chat with OperaUpClose Artistic Director, Flora McIntosh, on why this project is so special. Learn more at operaupclose.com/big-give-2023.

We chat to Michael Betteridge as part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2023. This year our Big Give Christmas Match-Funding Campaign will help us raise crucial funds to support our work with coastal community choirs across the UK. This new project is a significant development of OperaUpClose’s long-term commitment to community engagement, first seen in our successful and widely praised 2023 ...

For The Big Give Christmas Challenge this year, OperaUpClose are on a mission to raise crucial funds to support their work with coastal community choirs across the UK. As part of a major new touring production in partnership with MAST, Mayflower Studios, OperaUpClose will engage a network of coastal community singing groups directly in the making of their work, collaborating with experienced sp...

OperaUpClose in partnership with Chickenshed Theatre and Southampton and Isle of Wight Music Hubs present Peace At Last, an opera for 3 - 5 year olds based on the picture book by Jill Murphy. Mr Bear is desperately trying to get to sleep but is kept awake by the varying sounds of the night: Mrs Bear snoring, Baby Bear playing, a dripping tap, a clock ticking, an owl hooting…will he ever get any...

In partnership with ArtfulScribe, we collaborated with Manchester based open access choir The Sunday Boys in September 2023 for an inspiring day of music making. An ensemble of baritone, accordion, clarinet and oboe joined a fantastic group of community singers at Halle, St Michael's in Manchester to explore a powerful and evocative new choral prologue to Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea by ...

The Flying Dutchman - Trailer

What OperaUpClose are doing with The Flying Dutchman...

What three words describes The Flying Dutchman?

The Flying Dutchman - Behind the Scenes trailer

TRAILER: We two were lovers - The Sea and I

Meet the team...We two were lovers - The Sea and I

Riders to the Sea - Creating a Prologue with words and music

Flora McIntosh and Kath Page talk about The Big Give Christmas Challenge!

Peace At Last - The Big Give Christmas Challenge!

The Flying Dutchman: In Conversation with the Creative Team

Concerts in the Café Clip

In Conversation with Director Lucy Bradley

Former trainee Emily Louizou discusses OUC's Trainee Scheme

Willow Song by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Concerts in the Café: Shakespeare Re-Shaped Trailer

In Conversation with Glyn Maxwell

The Flying Dutchman: Epic and Domestic

Song's Poetry & Poetry's Song: Coffee Break Concerts panel discussion