Opera with a Title | The Music Troupe (chamber opera company)

Drawn from two plays by Lorca, this small-scale opera is both contemporary and 'classical'.

Gay courtships, reinvented Shakespeare, the bombing of a theatre, Juliet’s erotic desires and the shooting of a theatre director feature in this surreal work. But is the action for real or are the actors imagining it? Can their performance survive the war raging around them and will it redefine their art?

What the actors are playing, and what is happening to them in the real world, are confused: they bring their fantasies to bear on their performances while their characters invade their own personalities. Thus, role-play and questions of identity are examined, each from the other's viewpoint, as well as the nature of theatre and its relevance to everyday life.