Street Art Operas
Street Art Opera is a new way of experiencing opera as a relevant, accessible and exciting form. Created to be projected onto a wall, using the impact and language of Street Art but animated as operatic storytelling in music and listened to on Silent Disco Headphones. Imagine a Banksy coming to life and singing!
Like all Street Art, these new pieces will tell stories that are about NOW, with strong social and personal messages.
In October 2024 we launched our first commissioned Street Art Operas, as part of Llais and Cardiff Music City Festival projected on to the front of Wales Millennium Centre, as the conclusion to the Music and Race Showcase presented by Ty Cerdd and Black Lives in Music, and at the community centre Grange Pavilion in the heart of a multi-ethnic district of Cardiff.
These new pieces by Welsh Creative Teams, including music creator Eadyth and composer Claire Victoria Roberts working in collaboration with street artists and animators, writers, physical performers and filmmakers, explore how to discover and release your own creativity to fully express who you are, and an unusual take on the climate crisis we have created and how nature might find a way to manage.
Each piece lasts around 10 minutes and includes text in English and Welsh – and Urdu in the case of Rahmat-Mercy-Trugaredd – as part of their rich visual language.
Our Street Art Opera programme began in Summer 2023 with the presentation of The Scorched Earth Trilogy, originally created by Dumbworld for Irish National Opera
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Rahmat-Mercy-Trugaredd
By Amelia Unity, Eädyth, Sam Hussain and Jamie TC Panton
Inspired by Sufism and hip-hop culture, Rahmat-Mercy-Trugaredd reveals how creativity can be harnessed as a spiritual practice, following Sana as she pushes back against cultural and societal restraints to explore her innate creativity and claim her place in the world. In blending henna and graffiti-inspired visuals with powerful, soaring music, this uplifting work celebrates Sana’s journey of empowerment, as the world around her blossoms.
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- Out of Time
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Out of Time
By Claire Victoria Roberts, Giselle Ty and Lauren Orme
A darkly comic and fantastical tale of a future apocalypse in which nature reclaims its beauty and abundance. Instead of human destruction and depletion, plants and animals rebel against extinction, disrupting everyday life to saturate streets and cities with kaleidoscopic colour. As the natural world thrives, is it too late to apologise to the Earth? From whimsical to psychedelic, an operatic rage ensues.
