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My New Opera mynewopera is a YouTube Channel where you can watch and upload new operas, check out playlists by other artists, or just see what you find.

Opera is never just passive. It can help right past wrongs, as many of these operas about historic women do. From WWI to...
06/01/2021

Opera is never just passive. It can help right past wrongs, as many of these operas about historic women do. From WWI to medieval nunneries to the front line of the climate crisis, this final playlist is a great one to end our series on. /L

The Woman Who Refused to Dance is a compelling operatic narrative in one act for soprano, speaker, dancers, instrumental ensemble and video. The inspirationa...

It's nearly time for school terms to resume, and return to science and mathematics. But as the operas in this playlist s...
05/01/2021

It's nearly time for school terms to resume, and return to science and mathematics. But as the operas in this playlist show, they're not as dry as they're sometimes shown to be. /L

A “striking and intriguing” (Planet Hugill) portrait of the American poet Anne Sexton, known for integrating her deeply confessional poetry with the practice...

Not every opera has a libretto. See the range of real-life text that's inspired operas, from trial documents to graffiti...
04/01/2021

Not every opera has a libretto. See the range of real-life text that's inspired operas, from trial documents to graffiti on a council estate, in this playlist. /L

Today’s proceedings focus on the presentation of a short operatic performance by opera company Tête à Tête. mynewopera is your new opera. Subscribe here: www...

History gets forgotten sometimes...See what corners of history composers have found inspiration in, and how they've been...
03/01/2021

History gets forgotten sometimes...

See what corners of history composers have found inspiration in, and how they've been inspired by them, in this playlist. /L

Berlin, 1961. Erected overnight without warning, the Berlin Wall fractured the city. One month after the wall’s construction, Schutzwall follows two sisters ...

Although it's easy to group operas by 'what is it about', a fair few new operas go beyond narrative to create something ...
02/01/2021

Although it's easy to group operas by 'what is it about', a fair few new operas go beyond narrative to create something beautiful and entirely different, as this playlist shows. /L

Divertimento for Rope and Strings is a playful and unexpected performance collaboration between a prize winning aerial artist and two eminent classical music...

As we look to the future, it's time for our playlist of science fiction operas! With sentient AIs and an Ursula Le Guin ...
01/01/2021

As we look to the future, it's time for our playlist of science fiction operas! With sentient AIs and an Ursula Le Guin adaptation, it's full of utopian and dystopian visions... /L

From the opera Paradises Lost: music by Stephen Andrew Taylor; libretto by Marcia Johnson; based on the novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. From the premiere at th...

It's possible that, at some points of this year, we had to improvise around the constant changes. As we look back, here'...
31/12/2020

It's possible that, at some points of this year, we had to improvise around the constant changes. As we look back, here's a whole playlist of operas made up as they go. /L

Impropera dips into its collective experience drawn from London’s West End, the Edinburgh Fringe and travels across Europe to surprise and delight audiences ...

As we get towards New Year's, it's the time for folk tales of the fantastic. With folk tales old and new, this playlist ...
30/12/2020

As we get towards New Year's, it's the time for folk tales of the fantastic. With folk tales old and new, this playlist shows the latest in operatic myth. /L

London: an ancient city, where glass skyscrapers tower over ancient sewers. Where mortals struggle to be free, vampires rule, and Chaos battles Order...The B...

Love! Relationships! Opera!Yes, 2020 brought us new operatic takes on the world of romance in the modern age, brought to...
29/12/2020

Love! Relationships! Opera!

Yes, 2020 brought us new operatic takes on the world of romance in the modern age, brought together in this playlist. /L

Ride - A cycle courier, a pedestrian and a tango make a fifteen-minute love story. Amidst the pedestrian rush and clatter of office life, there are unexpecte...

We're big fan of books as Christmas gifts, but one of the team was once asked to only give someone works with film adapt...
28/12/2020

We're big fan of books as Christmas gifts, but one of the team was once asked to only give someone works with film adaptations they could watch. So why not watch this My New Opera playlist of operas adapting classic literature? /L

Jilted imagines a modern day relationship between one of Dickens’s most striking characters, Miss Havisham, the aging, jilted bride and his own wife, Catheri...

Today's playlist isa set of operas for children - a set of delights from across the operatic sector, from undersea adven...
27/12/2020

Today's playlist is
a set of operas for children - a set of delights from across the operatic sector, from undersea adventures to the tale of an Icelandic daisy. /L

MargeriteMärchenopervon Gunnsteinn Ólafsson und Böðvar GuðmundssonMusik komponiert von Gunnsteinn ÓlafssonOperntext von Böðvar Guðmundsson und Gunnsteinn Óla...

We're aware that, this year, the festive season has been more isolated than we'd like. A lot of composers have been infl...
26/12/2020

We're aware that, this year, the festive season has been more isolated than we'd like. A lot of composers have been influenced by their own experiences of loneliness this year, brought together in this playlist. /L

As friends and life leave Vicky behind, she reaches out, but only as far as her smartphone. Vicky and Albert features gifted mezzo Anna Prowse as Vicky, and ...

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