Streetwise Opera: Reimagining Figaro

Join us for three short stories about love, loyalty... and lies.

Award-winning Streetwise Opera brings together a cast of people with experience of homelessness, special guest artists and the Orchestra of Opera North.

Reimagining Figaro explores the love between a soon-to-wed couple, a newly reunited mother and son, and a couple strained by dishonesty and infidelity.

This piece includes music by Mozart alongside new commissions by Ellen Sargen and Nicolas Lewis. The production is directed by Katherine Wilde. 

Ahead of the performance, Streetwise Opera will share how this opera was co-created in a short, practical workshop on How to Create an Opera. 

Look out for pop-up performances in the foyer spaces before and after the event, featuring some of Mozart’s most beautiful music by students from the Royal Northern College of Music.

This event is part of Reimagining the Classics, a collaboration between Streetwise Opera, Opera North and English Touring Opera that flips opera’s biggest stories on their head with bold new music and performances in Nottingham, Manchester and London.

Streetwise Opera is an opera company that enables people who have experienced homelessness to find inspiration and empowerment through music and creativity as they rebuild their lives and identities.