The Music Troupe was founded by composer Edward Lambert in 2014 to perform, amongst other things, new small-scale operas.  We wanted to bring back the art of 'beautiful singing' into new operas that are designed for smaller spaces: works that aren't 'scaled-down' productions of grand opera but new chamber pieces in which the music and drama are tailored, not trimmed, to an intimate experience. Nine productions later, the group has given valuable opportunities to a wide range of over 60 performers and creatives (see below). We have recently made a movie of Last Party on Earth, as well as preparing for a live performance at The Cockpit, London. 

”…the next generation is looking to buy their vegetables at a farmers' market, not a supermarket. They want that taste, that crunch, that flavour. I think they're looking for more intimate musical experiences where you're close enough to taste the quality of the work. Opera can operate on many different levels, for many different metabolisms and on many different social scales and that diversity is a very good thing." 
Peter Sellars, The Independent, 26/02/2015

Last Party on Earth (2020) Filmed opera

Apollo's Mission (2019)
opera/musical to celebrate 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing

The Cloak & Dagger Affair (2018)
an adaptation of Lorca's play Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín

The Art of Venus (2017)
The colonisation of Mars runs into difficulties...

Opera With A Title (2015)
an adaptation of two dramas by Federico Garcia Lorca

Six characters in search of a stage (2014)
an adaptation of Pirandello's surrealist play

The Catfish Conundrum (2014 & 2015)
The controversy surrounding an Arts Council exhibition in 1971

The Parting (2018)

A ten-minute opera for 3 singers

The Oval Portrait (2017)

Life and art get confused 

The Music Troupers....