Streetwise Opera (@streetwiseopera.bsky.social) has been awarded a £189K grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to collate a digital archive and public exhibition to mark its 25th anniversary in 2027. Read more in The Stage 👇

Streetwise Opera awarded £189K grant to collate 25th anniversary archive

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It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and here are 8 ways singing supports your mental health.

Let’s explore how to make ambitious art with adults at risk. We’re partnering with @spitsmusic.bsky.social for a full-day workshop focused on how Streetwise Opera co-creates critically-acclaimed operas with people who have experienced homelessness. spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/events/skill...

Join us on Friday for Reimagining Pagliacci at @hackneyempire.bsky.social, in partnership with English Touring Opera, accompanied by the ETO orchestra conducted by Helen Harrison. www.hackneyempire.co.uk/whats-on

We've raised an amazing £2,510 in the first 24 hours of the @biggive.bsky.social's #ArtsForImpact campaign. If you wish to support our life-changing work, please give before noon on Tuesday to get your donation doubled. Donate at donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... Thanks to @theoldvic.bsky.social

“Exciting new music, enthusiastic performances, and best of all, seeing the tyrannical Count overthrown!” Find out more about our production of Reimagining Figaro at Theatre Royal Notts, in this interview with director Rosie Kat on the @operanorth.co.uk website. www.operanorth.co.uk/news/streetw...

Reimagining Figaro with Streetwise Opera

Find out how a group of people with experience of homelessness have been composing their own opera inspired by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Opera North.

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Tickets for our 1:30pm performance of Reimagining Pagliacci at @hackneyempire.bsky.social are now on sale. Join us on Friday 10 April as we tear apart and put back together one of opera’s most tragic stories. We'll let the audience decide Nedda's fate. www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/stree...

Tickets are now on sale for Reimagining The Classics! Join us at Theatre Royal, The Lowry and Hackney Empire for a joyful and bold reimagining of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, in partnership with Opera North and English Touring Opera reimagine.streetwiseopera.org

We are excited to announce a partnership with Factory International that will enable us to deliver our weekly creative sessions at the amazing Aviva Studios. Find out more at streetwiseopera.org/factory-inte...

Streetwise Opera announces new partnership with Factory International

Streetwise Opera is excited to announce a new partnership with Factory International that will see the award-winning opera company and homelessness charity deliver its weekly singing and creative sess...

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We are hiring an ambitious, experienced producer and line manager skilled at delivering participatory work. Working closely with the Artistic Director and three producers, the Head of Producing & Participation – Mat cover will lead on activity planning and production logistics.

Massive thanks to all who donated to our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge. We have officially hit our target! However, if you still wish to donate, the campaign page will be open until 12 noon tomorrow. From all at Streetwise Opera, a Big thank you! 😍 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

We are only 1% away from our target for the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge! Huge thanks to everyone who has taken us this far by donating, sharing or liking our campaign. If you want to help push us over the finish line, please make a donation via donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Bedazzled by Streetwise Opera! 🤩 John and Amy discuss how joining our sessions has helped them feel confident and connect with others. This is a key part in recovery from homelessness.

Sarah and Brian explain how being part of Streetwise Opera gave them the confidence to ask for support, feel listened to and be treated with respect. A new world opened its doors, where people took them seriously and they were trusted.

Streetwise Opera are an amazing creative programme. Do support them with a donation if you can. @streetwiseopera.bsky.social

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Our work transforms lives and challenges how society sees homelessness. This week, every donation will be doubled through the @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge. Find out more at donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

If you're looking to support the arts for all then you won't go wrong supporting StreetwiseOpera

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We've raised an unbelievable £13,000 in the first two hours of our @BigGive #ChristmasChallenge! ❤️ You can transform lives by supporting people to find belonging through creativity, rebuild trust in others and share their voices with the world. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Our work transforms lives and challenges how society sees homelessness. This week, every donation will be doubled through the @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge. Find out more at donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Music, theatre and creativity change lives. @streetwiseopera.bsky.social - whether in arts venues, hostels or through Opera Pioneers - I see the impact daily. This week your support goes twice as far. Every £1 becomes £2 in the Big Give. Please chip in if you can: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Taking the Stage, Changing the Story – Big Give

We use the medium of opera to inspire and empower people affected by homelessness, offering a space where their ideas, …

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We've raised an unbelievable £13,000 in the first two hours of our @BigGive #ChristmasChallenge! ❤️ You can transform lives by supporting people to find belonging through creativity, rebuild trust in others and share their voices with the world. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Our @BigGive #ChristmasChallenge is now live! In this 3-minute video, our brilliant participants explain why we need your support more than ever. Help us change lives by donating at donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Next week, we will be taking part in the @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge! Every donation from midday 2 December to midday 9 December will be doubled. To receive a reminder when our campaign goes live, go to streetwiseopera.org/reminder/?ut...

Superstar mezzo-soprano @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social is joining the line-up of our carol concert Deck the Halls with Streetwise Opera. Jennifer will perform John Rutter's arrangement of the Christmas carol 'O Holy Night'.

The brilliant London Classical Choir are performing Haydn’s masterpiece oratorio The Creation with the London Classical Orchestra on Sunday 23 November. This is one of the great choral works, full of blazing choruses and vivid musical storytelling.

Much-loved actor Paterson Joseph will join our carol concert Deck the Halls with Streetwise Opera to share a heartwarming Christmas reading. Join us at the beautiful All Hallows by the Tower on Fri 12 Dec for an evening of uplifting festive music and storytelling www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deck-the-h...

Really grateful to London Classical Choir, soprano Elinor Popham, tenor Aidan Atkinson, bass William Stevens, leader Regan Crowley, conductor Matthew Watts and all the amazing artists who will perform Haydn's oratorio The Creation to raise funds for Streetwise Opera and others.

Massive thanks to London Classical Choir, who are raising funds for Streetwise Opera and other homelessness charities with a powerful evening of music on Sunday 23 November. They’ll perform Haydn’s masterpiece oratorio The Creation. streetwiseopera.org/london-class...

London Classical Choir support homelessness charities with powerful evening of music

On Sunday 23 November 2025, London Classical Choir & Orchestra will perform a special concert at St Mary’s Church, Primrose Hill, raising money for three homelessness charities: Streetwise Opera, Stre...

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We’re thrilled to be shortlisted for the ScottishPower Foundation Innovation Award, which honours imaginative and resilient projects that help communities overcome challenges. 💚 Find out more at streetwiseopera.org/scottishpowe...

Today is World Homeless Day and Streetwise Opera performers from Manchester, Nottingham and London wanted to send out a message of hope to anyone who is homeless #WorldHomelessDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIS4...

A message of hope on World Homeless Day

YouTube video by Streetwise Opera

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Massively excited to announce our partnership with @operanorth.co.uk and @etopera.bsky.social for Reimagining the Classics. Over the next months we will work with these two amazing opera companies, as Streetwise Opera participants reimagine two much-loved operas.

Our friends at Tête à Tête present The Joy of Opera, two free days of playful activities at The Cockpit, London on 27 & 28 Sept. From escape rooms to improvised operas, join artists and audiences exploring opera in new ways. Book free tickets: www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/the-jo...