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Refuge: An Evening of Opera Exploring Women’s Experiences and Resilience

Refuge: An Evening of Opera Exploring Women’s Experiences and Resilience

Refuge: An Evening of Opera Exploring Women’s Experiences and Resilience

On 23 September 2025, soprano Lizzie Ryder is curating and performing in Refuge: An Evening of Opera Exploring Women’s Experiences and Resilience at the Brunel Museum’s Thames Tunnel Shaft. 

The evening will feature sopranos Lizzie Ryder, Roberta Philip and Georgie Malcolm, mezzos Hannah Morley and Naomi Lidiard, tenor Matthew Curtis, actor Rachel Fletcher and pianist Panaretos Kyriatzidis in a concert in aid of Refuge, the UK charity supporting women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

The evening will features music from Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Britten’s Peter Grimes, Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Verdi’s Otello, Mascagni’s Cavallerie Rusticana, Bizet’s Carmen, Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves.

Set in this extraordinary underground space, the programme brings together scenes and arias that centre women’s voices-care, crisis and defiance, alongside brief spoken interludes. All profits will be donated to Refuge.

Further information and tickets from EventBrite.


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