
Streetwise Opera
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Empowering and inspiring people with lived experience of homelessness through opera. Creating bold works & changing perceptions. London, Manchester, Nottingham.
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We are super excited to announce that soprano Rowan Pierce will join our special event An Evening with Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence and Friends, on Monday 12 May at St John's Waterloo. One of the UK's leading interpreters of Baroque and Classical repertoire, Rowan is acclaimed


We are thrilled to share the news that bass Blaise Malaba_Bass is joining our special event An Evening with Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence and Friends, on Monday 12 May at St John's Waterloo. Blaise is a commanding Verdi singer whose powerful performances have made him a regular at the


“If we did nothing, we’d be faced with the prospect of a deficit that would wipe us out within a few months.” But we launched an emergency campaign and raised over £100,000 in just a few months. Read CEO Rachael Amy Williams’s blog on how supporters stepped up, what it means for



Thank you to all who joined us tonight, including our amazing guests artists, Dame Sarah Connolly, 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, Blaise Malaba_Bass, Rowan Pierce, Matthew McKinney, Dylan Perez and Roelof Temmingh, our host Simon Callow, the brilliant and bold Streetwise Opera London group with


Streetwise Opera gala concert along with Dame Sarah Connolly and Nicky Spence. BRAVI TUTTI 🎶🎵🎵


Our Chair, Lord Mayor Cllr Paul Andrews, yesterday awarded charities close to his heart a share of £10,000 from our funds - a tradition upheld by every @lordmayorofmcr as their mayoral year ends. Recipients: @TheShawCentre, Manchester Mind, Francis House & Streetwise Opera ❤️


Profoundly honoured to welcome the @LordMayorOfMCR, Councillor Paul Andrews, to our Monday workshop at Manchester Libraries. The Lord Mayor, who attended our Nature performance at Manchester Museum The University of Manchester in March, yesterday presented us with a cheque for £2,000 as a donation from


Streetwise Opera has been awarded a £60,073 grant from the ScottishPower Foundation to support our 2025/26 Streetwise Sessions! With this funding, we’ll launch Reimagining the Classics, a bold project where people with experience of homelessness explore and reinterpret opera’s



We are pleased to be featured in the Opera Company Focus of the Spring 2025 issue of @OperaNow magazine. Read about our upcoming work in this great piece with Streetwise Opera's CEO Rachael Amy Williams and Artistic Director Martin Constantine gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/feat…


It was a real joy to perform and deliver a singing and creative workshop in partnership with Ace of Clubs this week, led by the amazing soprano Rowan Pierce, Streetwise associate artist Aga Serugo-Lugo, pianist Belinda Jones, producer Rowan Padmore and our artistic director,




What books are shaping the future of cultural leadership? In this brilliant blog from Arts Council England, sector leaders share the reads that have influenced how they lead with purpose, creativity and care. Our CEO Rachael Williams (Rachael Amy Williams) highlights The Fearless Organisation

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be performing at The Bridgewater Hall as part Manchester Classical, a vibrant celebration of the city’s dynamic classical music scene. Join us at 3:15 PM on Sunday 29 June for a reprise of our powerful Nature project. FREE, no tickets required ⬇️




The amazing Cardboard Citizens are inviting writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology, in association with Big Issue and published by Nick Hern Books. More Than One Story: The Anthology will spotlight the many realities of
