Streetwise Opera
Event date:
Spring 2013
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Streetwise Opera is an award-winning charity that uses music as a tool to help 500 homeless people per year move forward in their lives. This is done through a weekly music programme in 11 homeless centres across England and by staging critically-acclaimed opera productions starring our homeless performers.
Streetwise’s productions, (‘Awe-inspiring’, 5 stars The Times) platform the skills of their performers in a professional arena, showing them that whatever life throws at you, you can achieve great things; underpinning these productions, the workshops are a dependable source of creative activity in lives where everything else can be changing.
Streetwise Opera’s next ground-breaking opera production will encompass film, music and a live participatory performance involving 150 homeless performers alongside professional musicians. They are commissioning new music from composers representing Britain’s best established and emerging talent: Gavin Bryars, Orlando Gough, Emily Hall, Anna Meredith and Duncan Ward. These commissions are being supported by PRS Foundation for Music’s Awards for New Works funding scheme. The production will premiere in Spring 2013.