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Founded in 2012 by artistic director Ella Marchment, Helios Collective was an award-winning opera company that had development and connectivity at its heart. Through innovative and imaginative programming, Helios enabled an international community of performers, creatives, and arts partners to work together to shape the future of opera.

Director, Ella Marchment Il Letto (The Bed) was a co-production created by Helios Collective, Buxton International Festival and Copenhagen Opera Festival Buxton, England Copenhagen, Denmark July / August 2022 It is where we give birth, It is where we would like to die. It where we make love, It is where we lie next, (to each other).…

Synopsis Tryl – Danish for Magic – is Copenhagen Opera Festival’s family-friendly version of Mozart’s masterpiece The Magic Flute, with the storyline streamlined to focus on the opera’s three central couples: Papageno and Papagena; Tamino and Pamina; and the Queen of the Night and Sarastro. We begin in the living room of the ageing Papageno,…

Hathaway—Eight Arias For A Bardic Life is a plaria (play–opera aria) script, written and first performed in 2016 to mark the quatercentenary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616. Full script available from this link. Synopsis Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare and mother to their three children, sits in the parlour of New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon,…

Synopsis Tryl – Danish for Magic – is Copenhagen Opera Festival’s family-friendly version of Mozart’s masterpiece The Magic Flute, with the storyline streamlined to focus on the opera’s three central couples: Papageno and Papagena; Tamino and Pamina; and the Queen of the Night and Sarastro. We begin in the living room of the ageing Papageno,…