Stories of Hope and Home
Excerpt from "I was seven"
STORIES OF HOPE AND HOME
Co-creation of an opera in collaboration with Stories of Hope and Home, a story-telling project offering Asylum Seekers and Refugees a space to share their stories and others a space to hear them.
"People from countries as varied as Nigeria, Eritrea, Iran, and Azerbaijan who’ve fled war and persecution to the UK performed to an audience of 500 children from 15 Birmingham Schools of Sanctuary across the region.
The remarkable performance was written by the group of refugees, along with Birmingham writer Steven Camden, and with music by Daniel Blanco Albert. Welsh National Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru collaborated with Stories of Hope and Home to bring the performance to the stage."
Black Country Engage
2023
Project starting in January 2023.
2020
"CARMEN"
Co-creation of an opera with young people from the Black Country about the different topics featured in the opera Carmen.
The project stopped due to COVID-19
2019
"FREEDOM"
Co-creation of an opera with young people from the Black Country.
Music staging and text devised by Infinite Opera and the school children involved from St. Thomas Moore Catholic School, Link Academy and Q3 Academy in Dudley, Walsall and Tipton.
Music played by Wolverhampton's Youth Orchestra.
Excerpts from "Freedom", including Pig Song, "We think differently" and "Gibberish".
Turtle Opera
2023
Upcoming project by TurtleKeyArts.
Music by Daniel Blanco Albert
More info here:
https://www.turtlekeyarts.org.uk/turtleopera