Weather the Storm is a 45 minute opera collaboration between arts-in-health charity Rosetta Life and the Garsington Opera Adult Company. 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 will be performed by a company of professional singers, stroke survivors, Adult Company members and NHS Health Professionals under the direction of Karen Gillingham.
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.Weather the Storm will be performed on the Garsington Opera stage at Wormsley on Friday 30 July 2021.
Performance will be followed by a Q&A with the cast hosted by Professor Nick Ward.