ROH2
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ROH2 is the contemporary arm of the Royal Opera House
, commissioning and producing dance
and contemporary opera
works in the Linbury Studio Theatre, Clore Studio Upstairs, Paul Hamlyn Hall and various other locations situated both within the Royal Opera House and outside. ROH2 also provides additional artistic resource to partners and associate artists in order to help the organisation realise its strategic aims. ROH2 focuses on developing the art forms, creating opportunities for emerging artists and attracting new and diverse audiences to the Royal Opera House.
ROH2 has a multi-layered approach, which includes:
, The Opera Group, The Britten Sinfonia
, Akademi, London Sinfonietta
, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company
, Ballet Black, the National Dance Network, Opera East, Dance Umbrella
, London Jazz Festival
and the London International Mime Festival
.
Benefits include:
Faeries (Will Tuckett), Pleasure’s Progress (Will Tuckett/Paul Englishby
), Goldberg (Kim Brandstrup/Tamara Rojo
), Ghosts (Cathy Marston), The Soldier’s Tale (Will Tuckett); Into the Woods (Will Tuckett), Dalston Songs (Helen Chadwick
), The Thief of Baghdad (Will Tuckett/Paul Englishby), Into the Little Hill (John Fulljames/George Benjamin
), The Red Balloon (Aletta Collins/Street Furniture), Parthenogenesis (Katie Mitchell
/James MacMillan).
Significant new work from visiting companies has included Music Theatre Wales with In the Penal Colony
(Philip Glass
), English Touring Opera
with Promised End (Alexander Goehr
), Segue with Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (Kurt Weill
/Kate Flatt/Peter Rowe), Open Heart Productions with God’s Garden (Arthur Pita), The Opera Group with The Enchanted Pig
(Jonathan Dove
/Alasdair Middleton
), Music Theatre Wales with Letters of a Love Betrayed (Eleanor Alberga
), and Ballet Black with wide ranging programmes of new dance commissions, Ros Warby as part of Dance Umbrella, Cleveland Watkiss
and Nikki Yeoh
as part of the London Jazz Festival and the Josef Nadj Company, Jos Houben and Andre and Lefeuvre as part of the London International Mime Festival.
In 2008-09, ROH2 launched a new, two year Choreographic Associates programme. This is a structured programme of professional and creative development opportunities for three emerging choreographers, currently Laila Diallo, Sarah Dowling and Freddie Opoku-Addaie. The participants are offered a range of opportunities across ROH, working with different departments, and identifying areas of special interest for their practice. They also take part in Wayne McGregor
’s Arrows programme, alongside members of The Royal Ballet, and will be commissioned to make a new work as part of the 2011/12 Season.
Orlando Gough
and Aletta Collins have recently become ROH Associates, joining Patrick Haggard (Scientist) and Dominique le Gendre (composer). ROH Associates are attached to the organisation in an informal way, and we work with them to find creative opportunities within different areas. Other partnerships continued with companies including Music Theatre Wales, The Opera Group and Ballet Black.
DanceLines, ROH2’s choreographic laboratory programme, runs annually, with Wayne McGregor directing the course between 2008 and 2011.
In 2005, with the support of the Genesis Foundation, ROH2 embarked on an intensive programme to promote and encourage opera composition and launch new collaborations between composer
s and librettists
. Over four years (2005-9), OperaGenesis supported over 30 creative teams through workshops, mentoring and informal showings. The projects, ranged from work rooted in the classical tradition, through electro-acoustic music, animated opera, choreographic collaborations and even an opera that eventually became a musical
.
Although OperaGenesis activity was focused on development, around a third of the operas have subsequently been fully commissioned and have received, or will receive, their world premieres in theatres across Europe
, including the Linbury Studio Theatre. These include Dominique Le Gendre’s Bird of Night, Julian Phillips
’ Varjak Paw
, Edward Rushton
’s The Shops, Eleanor Alberga’s Letters of a Love Betrayed, Misato Mochizuki’s The Bakery Attacks and Jean-Philippe Calvin’s The Bald Soprano
.
The Opera Development programme (2009–2011) at the Royal Opera House is designed to allow composers and librettists at a variety of different levels the opportunity to produce new opera. The programme will help young people with less opera/vocal-writing experience develop their skills in writing for opera and the theatre
through courses for composers, librettists and directors, as well as main stage rehearsal
observerships which allow small groups to watch the rehearsal process of Stage and Pianos to Sitzprobe
n to Stage and Orchestras. ROH2 will also work with more established composers, allowing them the time to create new works through week-long workshops.
Performances within the programme also offer a number of diverse opportunities for composers:
Exposure; Snapshots of New Opera allows performance opportunities from a variety of emerging composers. Extracts from new operas are be performed in an informal, cabaret
setting.
OperaShots – evenings of short operas by composers outside the classical mainstream. June 2010 saw works by Nitin Sawhney
, Orlando Gough and Jocelyn Pook
, April 2011 sees works by Anne Dudley
(dir Terry Jones) and Stewart Copeland
, and November 2011 will see new work by Errolyn Wallen and Bonnie Greer
.
Chamber Opera commission – ROH2 will commission a new opera in the Linbury Studio Theatre, giving exposure to emerging composers of the moment.
is invited to take the art forms of the ROH as the starting point for a series of commissions, installations, exhibitions and performances which challenge audiences to see opera, ballet and contemporary art in new and different ways. The first Deloitte Ignite (2008) was curated by Wayne McGregor and took place over three days, attracting over 9000 people to the ROH. In 2009 Time Out magazine curated the festival and the world’s first Twitter
Opera was born. 2010’s festival was curated by Joanna MacGregor
with an arboreal theme and an eclectic range of music, dance and film based installations and live events.
In July, Voices Across the World attracts new audiences to the ROH with its exploration of the voice in different cultural traditions, with performers and musicians from Sub-Saharan Africa
, Japan
, Romania
, Israel
and the UK
.
ROH2 also takes the Royal Opera House to festivals such as Latitude
, a boutique festival in Southwold
with 23,000 attendees. Last year a custom stage was built in the woods for Will Tuckett’s Pleasure’s Progress, which was performed daily at dusk, as well as mounting performances at sites outside the Royal Opera House, such as Covent Garden
Piazza.
Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The...
, commissioning and producing dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
and contemporary opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
works in the Linbury Studio Theatre, Clore Studio Upstairs, Paul Hamlyn Hall and various other locations situated both within the Royal Opera House and outside. ROH2 also provides additional artistic resource to partners and associate artists in order to help the organisation realise its strategic aims. ROH2 focuses on developing the art forms, creating opportunities for emerging artists and attracting new and diverse audiences to the Royal Opera House.
ROH2 has a multi-layered approach, which includes:
- New productions and commissions in the Linbury Studio Theatre and Clore Studio Upstairs
- Co-productions and co-commissions with partner organisations and companies
- A contemporary opera development programme
- Associate artist programmes and professional developmentProfessional developmentProfessional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning...
work - Festival programming in the public spaces of the Royal Opera House and outside the building
- Visiting companies whose work complements the artistic programme
- Taking ROH2 productions to partner regions and venues across the UK as part of the ROH On The Road programme
Working with partners
ROH2 has developed, and values, partnerships with a range of arts organisations and companies, including Music Theatre WalesMusic Theatre Wales
Music Theatre Wales is a touring contemporary opera company, based in Cardiff, Wales. MTW performs newly commissioned works, alongside existing pieces from the recent past which are either neglected or have been unseen in the UK. Works are toured across the UK and internationally...
, The Opera Group, The Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK. It was created in 1992, following an initiative from Eastern Arts and a number of key figures including Nicholas Cleobury, who recognised the need for an orchestra in the East of England. It is a flexible ensemble composed of...
, Akademi, London Sinfonietta
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...
, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company is a British dance group based in London and founded in 1988 by the company's artistic director and choreographer, Shobana Jeyasingh. The company has toured internationally including in Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, New York and throughout the United Kingdom . It is...
, Ballet Black, the National Dance Network, Opera East, Dance Umbrella
Dance Umbrella
Dance Umbrella is an annual festival of new or contemporary dance held in London each October. Founded in 1978 as a showcase for emerging choreographers, Dance Umbrella now ranks highly among Europe's leading international dance festivals...
, London Jazz Festival
London Jazz Festival
The London Jazz Festival is a London-wide music festival held every November. It takes place in a variety of London venues, including larger concert halls—such as the Barbican and the Royal Festival Hall—and smaller jazz clubs, such as Ronnie Scott's and Vortex...
and the London International Mime Festival
London International Mime Festival
The London International Mime Festival is an annual theatre event in London. Its directors are Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan, winners of the International Theatre Institute Award for Excellence....
.
Benefits include:
- Opening up ROH to a range of new audienceAudienceAn audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature , theatre, music or academics in any medium...
s - Access to ROH resources for partner companies
- Skills and knowledge sharingKnowledge sharingKnowledge sharing is an activity through which knowledge is exchanged among people, friends, or members of a family, a community or an organization....
- Innovative approaches to developing new work
- Involvement of the ROH in a range of forums, opening up communicationCommunicationCommunication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
and enabling new relationships
New Productions
ROH2 commissions and produces opera and dance work on a regular basis. In recent years new productions initiated by ROH2 have included:Faeries (Will Tuckett), Pleasure’s Progress (Will Tuckett/Paul Englishby
Paul Englishby
Paul Englishby is a Film and Theatre Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor and Pianist. He is versatile across many genres, from big orchestral works to 1930s jazz-influenced scores. Englishby has composed the music for 4 feature films and 7 theatre productions in the past 2 years.-Short...
), Goldberg (Kim Brandstrup/Tamara Rojo
Tamara Rojo
Tamara Rojo is a Spanish prima ballerina, and is currently a Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.Rojo was born in Montreal, Canada, to Spanish parents who moved back to Spain when she was four months old...
), Ghosts (Cathy Marston), The Soldier’s Tale (Will Tuckett); Into the Woods (Will Tuckett), Dalston Songs (Helen Chadwick
Helen Chadwick (musician)
Helen Chadwick is a British musician and singer who has written over 200 songs, mainly for unaccompanied voices. She has made six solo albums and several with other artists. She composes for radio, theatre and opera and creates song theatre performances, both solo and with her group. As a singer...
), The Thief of Baghdad (Will Tuckett/Paul Englishby), Into the Little Hill (John Fulljames/George Benjamin
George Benjamin (composer)
George William John Benjamin, CBE is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher....
), The Red Balloon (Aletta Collins/Street Furniture), Parthenogenesis (Katie Mitchell
Katie Mitchell
Katrina Jane Mitchell OBE is an English theatre director. She is an Associate of the Royal National Theatre.-Life and career:Mitchell was raised in Hermitage, Berkshire and educated at Oakham School. Upon leaving Oakham she went up to Magdalen College, Oxford to read English...
/James MacMillan).
Significant new work from visiting companies has included Music Theatre Wales with In the Penal Colony
In the Penal Colony
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919....
(Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
), English Touring Opera
English Touring Opera
English Touring Opera is an opera company in the United Kingdom. From 1979 to 1992 it was known as Opera 80.- About the company :Opera 80 was founded in 1979 by the Arts Council of Great Britain as the successor to Opera For All; in 1992 the company changed its name to English Touring Opera...
with Promised End (Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr is an English composer and academic.Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Oliver Messiaen's...
), Segue with Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
/Kate Flatt/Peter Rowe), Open Heart Productions with God’s Garden (Arthur Pita), The Opera Group with The Enchanted Pig
The Enchanted Pig
The Enchanted Pig is a Romanian fairy tale, collected in Rumanische Märchen and also by Petre Ispirescu in Legende sau basmele românilor. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.It is Aarne-Thompson type 425A, the search for the lost husband...
(Jonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove is a British composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera , including in 1990 a famous 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner's Der Ring des...
/Alasdair Middleton
Alasdair Middleton
Alasdair Middleton is a British playwright and opera librettist. He also teaches the Junior Classes at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.- Opera libretti :*Everything Money Can Buy *Out Of The Ordinary...
), Music Theatre Wales with Letters of a Love Betrayed (Eleanor Alberga
Eleanor Alberga
-Life:Eleanor Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist and began composing short pieces. She studied music at Jamaican School of Music and in 1970 she won the biennial West Indian Associated Board Scholarship which allowed her to study at the...
), and Ballet Black with wide ranging programmes of new dance commissions, Ros Warby as part of Dance Umbrella, Cleveland Watkiss
Cleveland Watkiss
Cleveland Watkiss is a versatile English singer who performs in a variety of musical genres, including jazz, reggae, rock music and drum and bass. Watkiss also performs on piano and guitar.-Life:...
and Nikki Yeoh
Nikki Yeoh
Nikki Yeoh is a British jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer born in London, UK, probably better known for her work with Courtney Pine, Neneh Cherry, Phillip Bent, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Chante Moore and Steve Williamson, among others...
as part of the London Jazz Festival and the Josef Nadj Company, Jos Houben and Andre and Lefeuvre as part of the London International Mime Festival.
Work for families and young people
ROH2 has created a significant portfolio of high quality work for family audiences. The Royal Opera House can now offer a rich catalogue of work for young people and families, produced by ROH2 over nine years including Faeries, The Wind in the Willows, Pinocchio, Gentle Giant, Timecode, Thief of Baghdad and The Red Balloon.Artist Development Initiatives
ROH2 is committed to providing a space where artists can take creative risks and explore new ideas.In 2008-09, ROH2 launched a new, two year Choreographic Associates programme. This is a structured programme of professional and creative development opportunities for three emerging choreographers, currently Laila Diallo, Sarah Dowling and Freddie Opoku-Addaie. The participants are offered a range of opportunities across ROH, working with different departments, and identifying areas of special interest for their practice. They also take part in Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor CBE is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is highly distinctive in its vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for his active interest and incorporation of computer technology and biological science...
’s Arrows programme, alongside members of The Royal Ballet, and will be commissioned to make a new work as part of the 2011/12 Season.
Orlando Gough
Orlando Gough
Orlando Gough is a British composer, educated at Oxford, and noted for projects written for ballet, contemporary dance and theatre. Collaborators have included Siobhan Davies, Alain Platel, Shobana Jeyasingh and Ashley Page of The Royal Ballet. He is artistic director of The Shout, which he...
and Aletta Collins have recently become ROH Associates, joining Patrick Haggard (Scientist) and Dominique le Gendre (composer). ROH Associates are attached to the organisation in an informal way, and we work with them to find creative opportunities within different areas. Other partnerships continued with companies including Music Theatre Wales, The Opera Group and Ballet Black.
DanceLines, ROH2’s choreographic laboratory programme, runs annually, with Wayne McGregor directing the course between 2008 and 2011.
In 2005, with the support of the Genesis Foundation, ROH2 embarked on an intensive programme to promote and encourage opera composition and launch new collaborations between composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
s and librettists
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
. Over four years (2005-9), OperaGenesis supported over 30 creative teams through workshops, mentoring and informal showings. The projects, ranged from work rooted in the classical tradition, through electro-acoustic music, animated opera, choreographic collaborations and even an opera that eventually became a musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
.
Although OperaGenesis activity was focused on development, around a third of the operas have subsequently been fully commissioned and have received, or will receive, their world premieres in theatres across Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, including the Linbury Studio Theatre. These include Dominique Le Gendre’s Bird of Night, Julian Phillips
Julian Phillips
Julian Phillips was a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend along with Alisyn Camerota, Kiran Chetry and other Fox News personalities.He currently works as a motivational speaker....
’ Varjak Paw
Varjak paw
Varjak Paw is a children's novel by the British author S. F. Said and illustrated by Dave McKean. The illustrations in this book greatly resemble gothic forms of art. The novel received a Smarties Gold Award and has been adapted for other media....
, Edward Rushton
Edward Rushton
Edward Rushton was a British poet and writer.-Early life:Edward Rushton was born in Liverpool on November 13, 1756. He was enrolled at the Liverpool Free School from the age of 6 until the age of 9. He left school and by the age of 11 and became an apprentice with Messrs...
’s The Shops, Eleanor Alberga’s Letters of a Love Betrayed, Misato Mochizuki’s The Bakery Attacks and Jean-Philippe Calvin’s The Bald Soprano
The Bald Soprano
La Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Franco-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco. Nicolas Bataille directed the premiere on May 11, 1950 at the Théâtre des Noctambules, Paris...
.
The Opera Development programme (2009–2011) at the Royal Opera House is designed to allow composers and librettists at a variety of different levels the opportunity to produce new opera. The programme will help young people with less opera/vocal-writing experience develop their skills in writing for opera and the theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
through courses for composers, librettists and directors, as well as main stage rehearsal
Rehearsal
For other uses, see Rehearsal or Dress rehearsal A rehearsal is a preparatory event in music and theatre that is performed before the official public performance, as a form of practice, and to ensure that all details of the performance are adequately prepared and coordinated for professional...
observerships which allow small groups to watch the rehearsal process of Stage and Pianos to Sitzprobe
Sitzprobe
Sitzprobe is a term used in opera and musical theatre to describe a seated rehearsal where the singers sing with the orchestra, focusing attention on integrating the two groups. It is often the first rehearsal where the orchestra and singers rehearse together...
n to Stage and Orchestras. ROH2 will also work with more established composers, allowing them the time to create new works through week-long workshops.
Performances within the programme also offer a number of diverse opportunities for composers:
Exposure; Snapshots of New Opera allows performance opportunities from a variety of emerging composers. Extracts from new operas are be performed in an informal, cabaret
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
setting.
OperaShots – evenings of short operas by composers outside the classical mainstream. June 2010 saw works by Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality...
, Orlando Gough and Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook is a British composer, pianist and viola player.- Biography :Jocelyn Pook’s distinctive style is a product of her diverse experiences in classical, commercial, and so-called world music...
, April 2011 sees works by Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film...
(dir Terry Jones) and Stewart Copeland
Stewart Copeland
Stewart Armstrong Copeland is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks...
, and November 2011 will see new work by Errolyn Wallen and Bonnie Greer
Bonnie Greer
Bonnie Greer, OBE is an American-British playwright and critic.-Early life:Greer's father was born to a family of Mississippi sharecroppers. He was stationed in the UK during World War II and took part in the D-Day landings...
.
Chamber Opera commission – ROH2 will commission a new opera in the Linbury Studio Theatre, giving exposure to emerging composers of the moment.
Festivals/outside events
Deloitte Ignite, sponsored by Deloitte launches the ROH season. Each year, a guest curatorCurator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
is invited to take the art forms of the ROH as the starting point for a series of commissions, installations, exhibitions and performances which challenge audiences to see opera, ballet and contemporary art in new and different ways. The first Deloitte Ignite (2008) was curated by Wayne McGregor and took place over three days, attracting over 9000 people to the ROH. In 2009 Time Out magazine curated the festival and the world’s first Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
Opera was born. 2010’s festival was curated by Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...
with an arboreal theme and an eclectic range of music, dance and film based installations and live events.
In July, Voices Across the World attracts new audiences to the ROH with its exploration of the voice in different cultural traditions, with performers and musicians from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa as a geographical term refers to the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. A political definition of Sub-Saharan Africa, instead, covers all African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
ROH2 also takes the Royal Opera House to festivals such as Latitude
Latitude Festival
The Latitude Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, England. It was first held in July 2006....
, a boutique festival in Southwold
Southwold
Southwold is a town on the North Sea coast, in the Waveney district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the North Sea coast at the mouth of the River Blyth within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is around south of Lowestoft and north-east...
with 23,000 attendees. Last year a custom stage was built in the woods for Will Tuckett’s Pleasure’s Progress, which was performed daily at dusk, as well as mounting performances at sites outside the Royal Opera House, such as Covent Garden
Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as...
Piazza.