The Opera Shack

Accessible opera in unusual locations.

[Waterperry Opera Festival @WaterperryOpera]

Applications for our 2020 Young Artist Programme are open! 🎶 We are looking for aspiring opera singers to join our fully-funded educational programme at @waterperry in 2020. To apply visit - https://t.co/wZ2G76wTNO | Deadline is 5pm on 10th February.

[Emma Doherty @emmadotdoherty]

T O N I G H T is your final chance to see @OlympiasMusic #Makingmanchester (if you’re not sure, check out some audience feedback from last night’s show) Come and celebrate migration and give space to 60 powerful stories of @DT_Ardwick families coming to Manchester 🐝🐝🐝

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

Excited to share this documentary of cast and crew during our production of Carmen by Morven Oliver-Larkin! It "follows @emmadotdoherty, as she struggles with how to refashion an old and beloved artwork in the wake of the #MeToo movement." https://t.co/pnASxqa19J

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

Go and support our friends at @OlympiasMusic and Artistic Director @emmadotdoherty for what promises to be an exciting and moving performance celebrating migration in our city 🐝🐝🐝

[Emma Doherty @emmadotdoherty]

Making Manchester at @niamos5 on 27/28 June celebrating 60 families’ stories of migration through poetry by @ShamshadKhan27, movement, music and recording. Featuring words+voices of 60 y9 pupils from @DT_Ardwick alongside @kabantumusic + @vonnegutmusic come & celebrate with us!

[Emma Doherty @emmadotdoherty]

“This is freedom, come for the ride” - having the most wonderful time creating music and lyrics based on 60 stories of migration with pupils at @DT_Ardwick with @OlympiasMusic and @JWW_composes come and see #makingmanchester 27/28 June at @niamos5

[Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera @mcyopera]

There are only TWO more spaces for singers on this year's summer course. We'd love to receive applications from male voices, particularly low ones! Info here: https://t.co/JM9JMn1rf2

[Emma Doherty @emmadotdoherty]

Loving the look of #OVConnect - I’m a manchester based director and the artistic director of @TheOperaShack combining accessible opera with spoken word narration in unusual locations - always looking for collaborations and new ideas!

[Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera @mcyopera]

We still have spaces for instrumentalists and *a few* for singers on this year's summer course. Interested in performing 6 brand new operas supported by professional mentors? Find out more on our website. Course dates: 27 August - 6 September (Manchester)
https://t.co/JM9JMn1rf2

[Waterperry Opera Festival @WaterperryOpera]

Today we announce our YA Directors & Music Director for 2019; @emmadotdoherty @LilyDyble @rorywainwright will be working on YA shows ‘Abraham & Isaac’ and ‘Dream’ this summer @waterperry, and assisting on #FairyQueen & #MagicFlute. Welcome to the WOF team!

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

Go go go!

[Librettist Network @LibrettistNet]

Calling all female #composers and #librettists! It's time to apply for @TheRoyalOpera #ENGENDER - and to make sure this exciting (paid) #opera opportunity is spread far and wide!

https://t.co/cyeEotgCxa

(Any chance of help @mahoganyopera @teteateteopera @arcolatheatre?)

[Waterperry Opera Festival @WaterperryOpera]

Very excited to announce an official partnership w/ @NSOSuk & Content Creator @VivsGreen for our 2019 Festival. 25th July will be dedicated to events supporting & engaging young people in opera, including panel discussion w/ @emmadotdoherty @OperaShack https://t.co/qeSCKcTBf3

[Opera Holland Park @operahollandpk]

Have you signed up for our Under 30s scheme yet? You'll get exclusive offers, invitations, discounts on food and drink at our theatre bar and priority booking for ticket returns. It's a great way to explore and enjoy opera on a budget.

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

Here's some of the photos from The Adventures of Pinocchio! We feel so lucky to have performed in such a lovely space as @WhitworthArt , as well as to have collaborated with @OlympiasMusic and Children's Voices on this project 🗣🎼🎹

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

Friday 22nd March at @RNCMvoice ‘Contralto’: an hour long work for film and seven instrumentalists - featuring a cast of transgender women speaking, singing, and performing vocal exercises accompanied by a dense and varied musical score. Check it out! https://t.co/lzh5eBDlQC

[Emma Doherty @emmadotdoherty]

V e r y proud of @OlympiasMusic Children’s Voices and @TheOperaShack singers today on a wonderful ‘Adventures of Pinocchio’ performance workshop at @WhitworthArt GO TEAM x

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

We had the best time at @whitworthart with olympiasmusic and Children’s Voices! Thanks so much for everyone who came along - pictures to follow! ☺️ https://t.co/5F31cbB7By

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

We’re in @WhitworthArt already! Hope to see you all here at 4:15pm for the show 🥰

[The Opera Shack @TheOperaShack]

This Tuesday 4.15 at @WhitworthArt come and see our fabulous Opera Shack singers performing alongside @OlympiasMusic Children’s Voices for an adaptation of ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ by Jonathan Dove with Libretto by Alasdair Middleton. We’ve had a lot of fun with this one! 🤥

[MUSICA @musicafestival1]

We have put on an exhibition in the SU showcasing women’s bands from the Women’s Liberation Movement. Come pay us a visit!

[Emma Doherty @emmadotdoherty]

Write up of recent wonderful movement and music workshops at Newfield School, check it out, we had a lot of fun https://t.co/kXF4CHTLKy