Virtually Opera
Virtually Opera is a fusion opera company making beautiful entertainment.
Founded in 2014 to create cinematically-filmed opera, it since expanded to live productions that truly embrace what is special about live performance, whether laughing together at an operatic sketch comedy show, or our recent run of interactive immersive ritual-opera, we want to make shows which are both beautiful and fun.
We're currently on hiatus, but return here for more soon.
Current team:
Artistic Director: Leo Doulton. Leo founded Virtually Opera, and has led its efforts to unite the worlds of opera and entertainment, particularly by drawing on genre fictions and comedy. You can read more about Leo's work on this site.
Associate Designer: Charley Ipsen. Charley is most recently responsible for bringing the fantastical worlds of The Uncanny Things Trilogy to life, and has been working with Virtually Opera since 2020 to create unique visual languages for our shows.
Since 2014, Virtually Opera has:
- Created The Uncanny Things Trilogy, recipient of the Offie Awards Assessors' Choice and numerous excited reviews
- Created a 4-star (The Stage) interactive immersive opera about supernatural creatures.
- Made a new hiphop foxtrot sketch comedy opera, which was BBC Music Magazine Choice of the Month
- Presented the first ever relaxed performances of an opera at the Edinburgh Fringe.
- Made films of classic arias for Series 1 and Series 2
- Reinvented the Liederabend as a way to explore aesthetic philosophy
- Used tabletop roleplaying mechanics to write a vampire B-movie opera with Peter Davis
