Grimeborn 2025

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Winner of the 2023 Offies one off special award

In the heart of the summer 2025, Grimeborn Opera Festival returns from the 16th July for its seventeenth year of radical opera, featuring seven innovative productions from across the globe

 

“It’s a pleasure to be bringing audiences another serving of Grimeborn for the seventeenth year now. 

 Grimeborn allows us to do that with programming from both classical and radical thought-provoking artists and companies from across the continent and some of the most affordable ticket prices in the UK.”

Arcola Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen

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Grimeborn Opera: TESTAMENT

This immersive performance explores humanity’s evolving relationship with nature, blending timeless masterpieces with modern revelations.

Grimeborn Opera: The Elixir of Love (Re-imagined)

Follow our characters’ entangled love story in this bold contemporary re-imagining of The Elixir of Love story for London life today.

Grimeborn Opera: Jane Eyre

First heard in concert with the English Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Woods, this bold adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel follows one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms.

Grimeborn Opera: Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde: the opera that changed music forever. A forbidden love, a deep betrayal, a wound that never heals.

Grimeborn Opera: Tristan und Isolde, a Masterclass

In this special masterclass, emerging artists Robin Whitehouse and Becca Marriott, delve into key scenes from Wagner’s masterpiece.

Grimeborn Opera: Sense & Sensibility, The Musical

Music by Neal Hampton
Book and lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow
Directed by Alexandra Cowell
With its soaring musical score and sensitive lyrics and dialogue, Sense & Sensibility: The Musical invites audiences to live alongside the Dashwood Sisters, their colourful family, friends and even enemies; where people rarely say what they mean, and passions, hidden by society, are realised in song.

Grimeborn Opera: Don Giovanni

Enjoy another unique minimalist production by Marcio da Silva, performed by Ensemble OrQuesta, with the orchestral accompaniment by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble.

Grimeborn Opera: Becoming Tosca

Becoming Tosca, a unique and innovative lyric drama, relocates the action to an unspecific Latin American setting in the second half of the 20th century.

Grimeborn Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

Barefoot Opera return to Grimeborn Festival bringing their unique blend of ensemble storytelling and physical theatre to Donizetti’s classic gothic opera.

Image by Charles Flint