Formations 2017

Helios Collective’s Formations is an annual opera masterclass programme that brings together some of the very best emerging singers, directors, designers, composers, librettists, and producers for fourteen days of intensive performance and production training that culminate in two evenings of shows at ENO’s Lilian Baylis House.

Originally developed by Helios’s artistic director Ella Marchment and music director Noah Mosley, this year’s Formations will showcase two new commissions alongside a revival of a production that features some of the performance and production artists from previous Formations masterclasses.

The two new operas are hunger by composer Joanna Ward and librettist Ryan Hay, and The Storm by composer and librettist Lewis Coenen-Rowe. The revival production is the critically acclaimed Mad King Suibhne, composed by Noah Mosley to a libretto by Ivo Mosley.