OPERA FOR A DYING WORLD

A few years back I had this image which kept rattling around my head: teenage girls wildly, irreverently, gloriously re-performing the deaths of tragic heroines in opera.

Opera for a Dying World is a bloodthirsty live art opera performed by teenage girls.

A large-scale participatory work about our cultural obsession with beautiful dead women, the end of the world, and what we make in the face of all of it.

Currently in development. Premiering late 2027.

THE TEAM

Created and directed by Louise Orwin

Composer: Jo Paterson is a professional composer for film and TV whose work has featured at Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, LFF, SXSW and beyond. Featured on Channel 4, Vice and BBC Four, and named one of Film4's Top 5 Female Film Composers to watch.

Lead Vocals & Librettist: Harriet Pittard aka Zoee is a London-based musician described as writing "personal pop for people who don't fit in" (HUCK). Harri has previously released through Ryan Hemsworth's Secret Songs imprint and Vegyn's label Plz Make It Ruins, and guested with SOPHIE and Hot Chip's Joe Goddard. She launched her own label SCRAWL WORLD in 2024.

Initial R&D for Opera for a Dying World was supported through a bursary from MGCfutures. The project is currently supported by Spill Festival, HOME, Theaterhaus G7 Mannheim, and Arts Council England.

We are looking for premiere and development partners for 2027 and beyond.

Please email us for more info and a project pack: producer@louiseorwin.com