Productions.
Outland Opera works with local artists and their communities to nurture brand new, site-specific opera in striking locations. Find out more about upcoming productions below.
The Blue Margin
Past productions.
The Song of Home
17th December 2023 | Abbotsbury, Dorset
“I would like to say that we thoroughly enjoyed following the performers around and watching their excellent performance in Abbotsbury.”
“Thank you again for the most wonderful performance. We absolutely loved it, the voices, the locations [and] the story!”
Outland Opera’s first major project, The Stones Sing, is based at three spectacular sites in Dorset. The productions feature ‘endangered’ myths from each location.
The Wyvern and the Eagle
O ancestors I thank you once again
That you gave your strong arms to the Sydenham men
I can’t but think you knew of us back then
That you founded Wynford Eagle just for us,
and for us just as you did dream us
Martha loves her home in Wynford Eagle, but is oblivious to the troubles of her secretive father, the landowner, William Sydenham. Will the arrival of a mysterious woman change everything? And will the village succumb to the enchantment of the legendary wyvern?
Arn-a-one
A husband, St Catherine,
A handsome one, St Catherine,
A rich one, St Catherine,
A nice one, St Catherine,
And soon, St Catherine.
Arn-a-one's better than narn-a-one
Beatrice always comes last, and now she’s the last one in her village to get married. Like the other women, she prays to St Catherine, patron saint of the congenitally single, to bring her a husband. But as supernatural events unfold, will her new man really be better than no man at all?
The Beckoning Stone
What I would I had never seen, could never know
Its head bent on me – thus
And with its upheld hand
It beckoned to me – irresistibly
For good or evil I could not but go