Our Outreach

In 2023 we launched our Education Programme. Each year, we work with music teachers to create a series of diverse, creative, and dynamic music lessons constructed around our Summer Opera (this year, Mozart’s The Magic Flute).

These lessons, taught over the summer term, are designed to aid and empower teachers, and to give students the tools to learn, create, and explore all aspects of opera – from the music to the plot, characters, and even stage design – with each activity complementing a different part of the national music curriculum.

Our outreach team and wonderful Young Artists then attend each school to deliver in-person singing and acting workshops, before bringing everything together with a 45-minute performance of the opera for schools. Same performers, same music as the real show, just less of it!

While these resources are available to students of any age, we also work specifically with secondary schools, developing a programme to bring children aged 11+ behind the scenes of the creative process, and offer an extra layer of access and insight.

Students will be invited to the dress rehearsal of the Summer Opera production, and are able to talk to our creatives and Young Artists about all aspects of the creative industries and of production.

Wild Arts aims to be part of the solution as outlined by David Attenborough. We would like to live and work in harmony with nature and within the boundaries of what the planet is able to cope with, allowing the rejuvenation of our amazing natural world and restoring a biodiverse environment. We have all the tools we need, the thoughts and ideas of billions of remarkable minds and the immeasurable energies of nature to help us in our work. We can do it.

To learn more about our principles and our approach, take a look at the article here.

We only have one planet, and one biosphere, which humanity is a part of. 

At the moment we (mostly the rich Western world) are testing the limits of the biosphere's ability to mend and renew itself. In many areas, we've gone beyond what the planetary systems can cope with.

Our aim is to create world-class opera in a way that stays within planetary boundaries - i.e. within the planet's ability to deal with the pollution we create, and clean up after us. It's easy to say; much harder to do. We're developing our strategy through travel, production design, food, energy use, and the way we manage our office and team, as well as through who we choose as our partners.

What is one-planet living?

What are planetary boundaries?

Sustainable creating

Sustainability begins at the outset, with the director's concept and the designer's vision. We ensure that our team works collectively to achieve that vision in a sustainable way.

Planning and communicating

Sustainable outcomes depend on collaboration and communication, allowing time for sustainability-focussed meetings, and to develop new tools and processes.

Sustainable materials

Sustainable theatre requires a step change towards the use of equipment and materials which have had a previous life, and will go on to be reused, repurposed or recycled. Our design team use scrap materials and fabrics, and rifle through charity shops to create their shows.

Clean procurement and transport

As a touring opera company, and a company that pride themselves on reaching inaccessible venues, transport (and often driving) is a key part of our day to day life.

Over half our mileage as a company is by train. Of the remainder, one third is in electric vehicles. With our reduced set, we have no diesel lorries or vans following us on the road. Meanwhile, because we travel to local venues, half of our audience travel less than 10 miles to see our shows (and just 8% travel more than 30 miles - less than join us on foot!).