Weather the Storm, An Opera. Online Screening and Q&A - World Stroke Day

Weather the Storm, the premiere screening of a new opera performance, staged and filmed at Garsington Opera July 2021.

Weather the Storm is a 45 minute opera collaboration between arts-in-health charity Rosetta Life and the Garsington Opera Learning and Participation Team.

Weather the Storm is a new work by Orlando Gough with libretto by Lucinda Jarrett and Chris Rawlence drawn from the experiences of stroke survivors. The opera was performed by a company of professional singers, stroke survivors, Garsington Opera Adult Company members and NHS Health Professionals under the direction of Karen Gillingham on 30th July 2021.

Weather the Storm is a development of the short online opera I Look for the Think, which was first streamed in September 2020, and was itself a development of Hospital Passion Play, performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2017.

The screening of the performance will be followed by a Q&A with the stroke ambassadors who took part, hosted by Rosetta Life's Artistic Director, Lucinda Jarrett.