Building on the success of the Roman River Festival and its 25-year history, we deliver ambitious repertoire and a fresh artistic approach – creating unforgettable experiences for audiences and performers alike. Our year-round programme includes nationwide and European touring, alongside annual music festivals that showcase world-class talent.
We work with hundreds of primary school students every year, offering a diverse programme of workshops and performances in connection to our annual summer opera, as well as dynamic and engaging lesson plans, young performer spotlight opportunities, and online resources to aid teachers.
Our Young Artist Programme nurtures new talent. We give several musicians each year the opportunity to hone their craft in a professional production setting – gaining confidence through vocal, language, and acting coaching, and through rehearsals and performances with an experienced ensemble of established artists.
Wild Arts creates world-class opera that keeps within the our planet’s limits. The charity developed its strategies alongside the Theatre Green Book – with a renewable approach to travel, food, energy use, and partnerships.
Where others have grand sets, we focus on costume and the magnetism of our performers; where others have lorries full of equipment, we have the boot of an electric car.
2025
Eugene Onegin | The Elixir of Love | Wild Arts Opera Evening | Mahler Symphony No. 1 | Roman River Festival 25th Anniversary | Dramatised Messiah
2026
Dramatised St John's Passion | Das Lied von der Erde | The Marriage of Figaro | Wild Arts Opera Evening | Mahler Symphony no. 9 | Dramatised Messiah
2027
Dramatised St John's Passion | La Bohème | Wild Arts Opera Evening
The Wild Arts Opera Evening is a semi-staged selection of operatic and musical favourites woven into a 75-minute narrative).
The Roman River Festival takes place in coastal Essex each Autumn
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde is with Xavier Hetheringtion and Marta Fontanals-Simmons.
We believe that music can help bring people together and make them happier, and we believe that we can do that while working with the world around us, not in conflict with it. We are bringing top-quality opera to an incredible variety of people in a way that compliments our natural world, and we are building towards our environmental dream. We’d love you to help us continue our work.
Over the next year we are offering solo recitals, chamber performances (from Byrd to Bartok), grand passions, our trademark Opera Evening programmes, and a staged summer opera, all at a world-class standard. We would love to bring some of this music to you.
If you are interested in hosting a Wild Arts performance, please click the link below and get in touch.
We are a growing movement of people in arts and culture declaring a climate and ecological emergency. We pledge to tell truths, take action and seek justice. Arts and culture can lead in creating a regenerative future that protects the planet and sustains everyone, everywhere.
Wild Arts, charity no. 1158366
South Green Farmhouse, Fingringhoe, Colchester, CO5 7DP, United Kingdom
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Wild Arts is an Advanced Certificate Theatre Green Book company.
All our tickets are sold via Ticket Tailor – a carbon neutral B Corp who donate 1p from every ticket sold towards climate causes.
Join our growing band of Wild Arts Friends, who are essential to everything we do, and in particular support our education and schools work. Many of our performances sell out so there is a real benefit to supporting the charity.