This year's annual summer festival of contemporary opera, music and theatre has now finished.

 

More details about events in Summer 2009 will be added later next year. Please keep checking on this page for updates, or alternatively e-list for regular updates about events at the Almeida Theatre.

 

More information about the events in the Summer Festival 2008 can be found below.

 

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Summer Festival 2008

 

10,11,13 July 2008

An Ocean of Rain

 

A new opera. Three cosmopolitan women make their annual escape to Haiti to help out in an orphanage, then sea unexpectedly reveals its hidden strength.
Visually epic and musically unique.

 

16- 19 & 23 - 26 July 2008
Nocturne By Adam Rapp

 

A one man play by award winning American Writer Adam Rapp. A young piano prodigy is left reeling from the tragic death of his younger sister across the decade and a half that follows he tries to cope with the ramifications of the tragic accident.

 

28 July – 2 Aug 2008

Tiata Delights 08 - co presentation with Tiata Fahodzi

 

The world's most exciting continent explodes onto the Almeida Theatre stage. A major tour de force in Black British theatre for over a decade, Tiata Fahodzi takes residency at the Almeida Theatre for the first time to present its annual new writing festival Tiata Delights.

 

Concerts

 

12 July 2008
Ensemble MAE

 

Ensemble MAE will present works that deal with the idea of new narratives and how music functions.

 

20-21 July 2008
The Theatre of Possibilities

 

In association with Tate Modern and major Cy Twombly exhibition. Theatre of Possibilities illuminates key areas in artist Cy Twombly's creative life.

 

 

22 July 2008
Barb Jungr - No Regrets

 

Barb Jung and her musicians return with her much requested chansons repertoire.

 

 

Marbles Photo Andrew Morrell Photography