Grimeborn Opera: TESTAMENT

Composed by & Libretto by Claudio Monteverdi, Leoš Janáček, Libby Larsen, Thomas Weelkes

Directed by Tobias Millard

Green Opera, the award-winning sustainable opera company and arts charity, returns to the Grimeborn Opera Festival with TESTAMENT—a bold and thought-provoking journey through four centuries of vocal music. This immersive performance explores humanity’s evolving relationship with nature, blending timeless masterpieces with modern revelations.

The evening features dramatic stagings of Monteverdi’s gripping Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Janáček’s emotionally charged The Diary of One Who Disappeared, and the long-awaited theatrical premieres of Libby Larsen’s Try Me, Good King and Thomas Weelkes’ The Nightingale.