Upcoming Events - 2025
The Goddess of Swan Lake
January 18th 2025, Grand Hall, Brent Civic Centre 6.30pm
Tchaikovsky, arranged Howard Moody). Sujata Banerjee Dance Company with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Goddess of Swan Lake is a reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake produced in partnership with the Sujata Banerjee Dance Company and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Through Kathak's storytelling power, we will tell the timeless love story of Odette and Siegfried. In Hindu mythology, the Swan symbolises purity, grace and inner strength and Saraswati, the Goddess of all art forms and learning, travels on the back of a swan.
Through Kathak dance storytelling power in this reimagined version of Tchaikovsky’s original score, dancers and musicians from SBDC and musicians from the RPO will tell the story of love, betrayal and the enormous power the goddess bestows on her swans to fight evil. The Goddess of Swan Lake is directed by Sujata Banerjee with a score which has been specially written and arranged by Howard Moody and conducted by Orlando Jopling.
Push
January 26th 2025, La Faràndula Theater
Opera by Howard Moody sung in a new Catalan translation by Joan Sellent. Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès. Teatre La Faràndula, Sabadell.
On January 26, the La Faràndula Theater in Sabadell will host the premiere of the participatory opera Push! , a work by the British composer Howard Moody based on the moving story of Belgian pianist and Holocaust survivor Simon Gronowski. This production, which will close the events of Sabadell as the Catalan Culture Capital 2024, will involve members of the local community.
photo: © Hugo Segers
The Last Train to Tomorrow
January 27th-28th 2025, Minerva Theatre Chichester
An opera composed by Carl Davis, tells the story of the flight in 1938-39 of 10,000 children from the Nazis. Kindertransport rescue trains to London, such as the ones organised by Sir Nicholas Winton from Prague, carried the children to safety.
Children from local schools will sing and play the parts of the children, accompanied by a professional orchestra conducted by Howard Moody.
Monday 27 January 2025, the 10th Anniversary of the Chichester Marks Holocaust Memorial Day charity, will be a particularly poignant day as it will also be the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Tales of Transatlantic Freedom
February 2025, North America Tour
Tour of Tales of Transatlantic Freedom, Cape Cod to Toronto with Andrea Baker and Newman Taylor Baker Sing Sistah Sing!© .
Header image by Hugo Segers, 2019