Play a part in the city’s most dynamic OPERA project! With your support, the fully realised ABOMINATION will reach the audiences of Belfast.
Your support makes the difference.
This November, the Ensemble in partnership with Outburst Queer Arts Festival premiere ABOMINATION: A DUP OPERA at the Lyric Theatre.
Fusing opera with drag, cabaret and political satire, this ground breaking ‘docu-opera' features historical and recent comments by DUP members on gay rights, trans lives, marriage equality, ‘poofs', 'perverts’, and sets the infamous Iris Robinson radio broadcast to live orchestral music, saving Ulster from Sodomy one song at a time!
Last year our generous supporters helped us bring a little 15 minute pop-up opera to the stage. NOW it’s back BUT as a fully staged, hour long work. We’re asking our supporters from around the globe to help bring this timely and important work to the stage, pledging what they can to support our funding.
This is a timely, urgent work for Northern Ireland. At a time when freedom of speech is under threat globally yet frequently invoked to legitimise hate speech, Abomination explores the power of words and challenges us to create a new narrative beyond the bluster and bruising of politicians and media.
Play a part in our future
Based in the city we proudly call home, we employ musicians, actors, visual artists, technicians - the best of Belfast - to create cutting edge music-theatre for audiences here and abroad. We passionately believe that music is the key to Belfast’s future. A collective language, music can be counsel, celebrant and ambassador for this ground-breaking place. With your support, this work will live and breath the city of its birth.
Your donations bring live music to Belfast audiences
Unlike other companies, we don’t yet receive guaranteed annual funding to make our work. So we reply on many, much smaller pools from generous funders including you! The scale of our ambition means we fund raise wherever we can, creating wages for orchestra members, performers, video/lighting artists and more. Your donation - no matter how small - will go towards realising that ambition.
Your generous donation ensures this project will happen in Belfast!
This project successfully funded on 20th November 2019