After my Breath,
a love letter to Greta.
Premiere 15-18 July at Grimeborn Festival
After My Breath, a love letter to Greta Thunberg, is a bold new chamber opera for solo soprano, drawn from moments in the life of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Across six searing scenes, from a childhood filled with the glorious music of her opera singer mother, to global stages and determined acts of public protest, the opera traces one voice finding its power. Weaving together Thunberg’s story with echoes of Mozart, Puccini and Bizet, it asks what it truly means to speak when the world refuses to listen.
Written and composed by Lisa Logan, the melodic score builds from an intimate whisper to impassioned declaration. At its heart, a refrain: “I am one voice. I was never meant to be the only one.” Urgent, poetic, and deeply human.
As part of a double bill with Eden 2.0
After My Breath is an original operatic work inspired by the public life and speeches of Greta Thunberg. It is not authorised, endorsed by, or affiliated with Greta Thunberg or the Greta Thunberg Foundation. A percentage of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to a charity of Greta Thunberg’s choice or the Greta Thunberg Foundation. This production follows Green Book sustainable rules and will use recycled materials.
Future Projects
Touch
“Touch is illegal. Intimacy is to be feared…”
A new chamber opera by Lisa Logan
SETTING: a dystopian world where person-to-person touch is illegal
DURATION: 1hr 45mins
LIBRETTO: adapted by the composer from Briana Morgan’s play, with additional text by Jennifer Thorpe.
Premiere: 2027.
Battlefield
“An immense canvas in miniature, this ancient text is timeless and contemporary, asking how we can find inner peace in a world riven with conflict.…”
A new chamber opera by Lisa Logan, after a play written by Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on Le Mahabharata by Brook, Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière.
SETTING: The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused.
DURATION: 2hrs 20mins
LIBRETTO: Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière.
In development: fully composed, workshop funded by an Arts Council R&D grant.