Opera Workshops at LOD Music Theatre, Ghent

Later this month I am spending a week at LOD Muziektheater in Ghent, Belgium, at an opera-writing course called ‘Looking Forward/Looking Back‘. It’s being run by the ENOA network of European opera academies, and led by playwright Martin Crimp. This is the second opera workshop I’ve attended with Martin, after a week with ENOA last year at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Also in attendance are writers Simone van Saarloos, Nathalie Gendrot, Alice Birch and Isabelle Kranabetter, Sabryna Pierre and Ana Maria Versloot, and composers Adam Maor, Christian Mason, Andrzej Kwieciński, Christiaan Richter, Igor Silva, Anat Spiegel, Nuno da Rocha, Pedro Faria Gomes, Jug Markovic and Frederik Neyrinck. I am very grateful to Aldeburgh Music for supporting my attendance at the workshops.