South east London students have been working with professionals from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance on a project to be performed in Blackheath.

Bonus Pastor Catholic College in Bromley and Plumstead Manor School have been collaborating with staff at Trinity Laban on a project based on the themes of one of Mozart’s best-loved operas, Idomeneo.

It will be performed at Blackheath Halls from 5.30pm on Tuesday, July 14, just before the first night of a new production of the opera by Blackheath Halls Opera.

Project director Joe Townsend, of Trinity Laban, said: “It is a 30 minute work involving music and opera performance. The young people are driving the whole thing forward: composing, producing and performing.”

He added: “I’m always surprised and delighted at the creative talent that young people have when it comes to making new work inspired by age old themes. We’re creating a “modern take” as they put it on the opera Idomeneo, it’s going to involve the wind, the sea and an impossible love triangle; it is inspired by Japanese theatre, Beyoncé and of course, Mozart.”



Blackheath Halls Opera’s Idomeneo runs for four performances from July 14 to 19 and features a cast of more than 200 locals, including children from Beecroft Primary School and Greenvale School in Lewisham and Greenwich’s Mulgrave Primary School and Charlton Park Academy.

Go to trinitylaban.ac.uk/Blackheath-halls or call 020 8463 0100.