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Jonathan Dove and librettist April De Angelis's community opera Uprising, composed for Glyndebourne, has received the RPS Opera and Music Theatre Award. The judges said: "Jonathan Dove’s score is an adventure playground for an inter-generational range of talents, communicating the opera’s ecological message... Audiences in Sussex, Essex, Edinburgh and Glasgow – including hundreds of children – were uplifted by the experience." Uprising was commissioned by Glyndebourne and Saffron Hall Trust. The work explores the power of activism and empowers young people to take action in the face of the climate crisis through a tale which follows a young girl in her journey from refusing to go to school to enrolling in a global movement in their fight for the future. The full-length opera has a cast of professional singers, youth opera chorus, an adult community chorus, professional orchestra alongside young instrumentalists and a youth percussion ensemble on stage. https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news/2026-rps-awards-winners-announced  Comments are closed.
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