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Brolly are developing a new immersive opera work that will disrupt the western classical form of opera by integrating spoken word and jazz forms that speak to histories of struggle and oppression. The production explores ideas of environmental activism and migration combining live performance, music and animation for diverse young people aged 8 –11yrs and create partnerships between national touring venues, music education hubs, primary schools and libraries.

 

Seahorses are under extreme man-made and environmental threat and if no intervention is made they will be extinct as a species within 30 years. Young people will have the opportunity to participate in the professional production through choral music, develop their advocacy skills as environmental activists with organisations such as ‘The Seahorse Trust’ and co-create a public digital installation ‘The Seahorse’s Lament’.

 

We will start the process of R&D in Spring 2025 to create the new opera work (60 minutes), with a view to delivering the project in Summer 2026.

 

Brolly have developed a reputation for creating ground-breaking new opera works that tell sensitive and often hidden histories of minority communities in Britain. Their work features leading roles in the repertoire for under-represented artists including Clocks 1888 – the greener (Hackney Empire, 2016); The Powder Monkey (The National Maritime Museum & Opera North, 2019) and The Stopping Place (Newham Town Hall, 2024).