Returning for its nineteenth year, Grimeborn Opera Festival continues to rip up the rulebook and create something radically new.
This season presents powerful new operas exploring the climate crisis, social injustice and women’s perspectives, alongside reimagined classics including Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto. The result is a programme as captivating, provocative and alive as the modern world it reflects.
Grimeborn 2026 embraces opera as a living, evolving art form – where daring stories, urgent questions and bold reinventions unfold across intimate stages.
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Eden 2.0 / After My Breath: A Double Bill
Composed by William Gardner / Lisa Logan
Così fan tutte?!
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Erwartung / The Murderous Delusions of Gavrilo K: A Double Bill
Music by Arnold Schoenberg / Kevin Rodgers
Lowest of the Low
Music by Tuluğ Tırpan
Dido and Aeneas
Music by Henry Purcell
Bitter Visions: By Order of Hildegard
Music by Hildegard von Bingen and Florence Carruthers Andrews
The Magic Flute
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Music by George Frideric Handel