The Vanishing Act

Music by Diego Jimenez

Libretto by Stuart Lee

Lilly

Marianne Ruel

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Amira

Cecily Shaw

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Milo

James Emerson 

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Nuha

Laura LeVoir

Milo builds a fantastical boat and takes his young niece on a voyage out to sea full of fantasy and wonder. Although Milo’s tricks and distractions can't be sustained, and soon memory and magic collide, threatening to tear their world apart.

The Vanishing Act is an opera about the loss of innocence, and how magic can lead us from the darkness into the light, and vice versa.

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A Bone to Pick

Music by Eluned Davies

Libretto by Bess Still

The Teeny Tiny Woman

Zoë Jackson

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The Husband

James Emerson

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The Everyman

Will Jowett

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The Wife

Ona Černiauskaitė

The Teeny Tiny woman goes for a teeny tiny jaunt into a teeny tiny graveyard, foraging for bones to make a teeny tiny bone broth. All the while, she is unaware of the havoc she is causing as the ghosts of the graveyard are unable to pass into the afterlife without their missing pieces. A married couple from a bygone era must enlist the help of an unlikely hero to capture The Teeny Tiny Woman and reclaim their bones.

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Elara Catching Sky

Music by Yotham Ben Yami

Libretto by Ariella Stoian

Elara

Marianne Ruel

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Mabel

Cecily Shaw

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Roger

Max Robbins

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Wife

Zoë Jackson

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”

–Albert Einstein

At a remote observatory on the North Sea coast, astrophysicist Roger and astrobiologist Mabel scan distant stars for exoplanets and possible signs of life. When Roger’s daughter Elara arrives – lonely, fiercely imaginative, and only there for the summer – she tries to assist their scientific research but inadvertently summons Mani, a volcanic moon turned child, born of collision and resisting categorisation. Mani’s presence transforms their discovery of an Earth‑like planet (Mani’s planet) and begins to dissolve the boundary between observation, data and invention. Through wild play, tangled kinship, and an intimate fusion of science and imagination, the three must reckon with what it means to reach out to the unknown, both human and cosmic.