Arcola Theatre

Janacek's delightful and life-affirming opera about nature and man's relationship to it. This innovative production brings the animal world to life with dance, masks and puppetry. Sung in English with a brand new chamber arrangement, the superb cast features...

Alegria's double bill of Rossini's The Silken Ladder and Offenbach's A Husband At The Door. Director Benjamin Newhouse-Smith sets both works in the same room, but 80 years apart, with new contemporary translations from Lindsay Bramley.

Internationally-recognised rising star Sam Furness stars in Janacek's tale of a young farmer who falls in love with a gypsy girl and faces an ensuing crisis of identity and indecision. Updated in Jack Furness's staging as the video-diary of an asylum...

The composer George Gershwin sought to do justice to African American music in this maverick creation, but over the years, controversy and accusations of racial stereotyping have dogged his 'folk opera'. Basement Orchestra confront Gershwin's masterpiece,...

Tilly Mouse lives under an opera house, and she just loves to sing. Opera Mouse has been performed in venues all around the world, ranging from a theatre in Canada, an orphanage in Morocco, a school in Sudan and a shopping mall in Algeria.

A thrilling tale of desire, betrayal and magic. Ensemble OrQuesta brings this 1686 classic from the crusades into the present, with artistic director Marcio da Silva and an ensemble of talented young soloists.

Director Aylin Bozok won the WhatsOnStage Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her production of Pelleas Et Melisande at Grimeborn 2013. Now, following hit shows at Bury Court and Opera Holland Park, she returns to Arcola with a bold new take on Camille...

Part absurdist science-fiction, part sultry cabaret, Collision is the first and only opera work from avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters. Spectra Ensemble recreates Collision as a fully-staged opera, set to new cabaret and jazz influenced music by Lewis...