Everyman Opera

08/10/2026

Thank you to *The Oxford Post* for featuring our forthcoming presentation of *What Is Yours*.

On Thursday 29 October, three professional singers and pianist Maya Soltan will perform the opera’s principal arias and Final Trio at Summertown Arts, followed by an audience discussion.

Doors 6.30pm | Performance 7.00pm
Free admission—no booking required.

We look forward to welcoming you.

04/10/2026

WHAT IS YOURS

Live excerpts from a new English-language chamber opera exploring power, family and choice.

Flávio Lauria · Mehreen Shah · Phoebe Edwards
Pianist: Maya Soltan
Music: Spyros Syrmos
Libretto: John Frederick Tatlow

Thursday 29 October 2026
Doors 6.30 pm · Performance 7.00 pm
Summertown Arts, 294A Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7ED
FREE ADMISSION

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01/10/2026

I have launched my crowdfunder this week, which has already attracted £115 in donations. Please come see my new chamber opera excerpts event - 'What Is Yours' - on the 29th October. I have 3 world class opera singers and pianist performing at the newly opened Summertown Arts centre, north Oxford (opposite the BBC). Doors 6:30; performance at 7pm. Your previous donations have created this, so thank you. I encourage you to come and see how public spirited belief in the arts is helping to make new opera. The video from the event will be used to attract further funding, with an aim to get this and more new works staged - both excerpts and full production; both lyrical opera and experimental. 🎭 🎼 https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/6Wk7a5KW?utm_campaign=sharemodal&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=shortlink

Help bring four new *Pawn Queen* arias to life in performance and create a film to attract support for the opera’s full production.

02/09/2026

Here is some background information about Al-Uzza. There will be more information on her first reappearance since the time of Mohammad in a short while, but meantime there's other news... 🧕🎭🫅

06/08/2026

Event to be staged in north Oxford late October - early November. 🎭🎼

05/05/2026

Have just completed the fifth, and final libretto (What Is Signed) in the Al-Uzza cycle. A couple of the more harrowing ones were based on true events. What I am sharing with audiences is exploring how systems exist before us—and how we make them real through participation. Each of these librettos has gone off to different opera companies for dramaturgial assessment. Here's hoping for some excellent news🫰Here is a pictorial depiction of the cycle, which may better capture the thesis that I am hoping to stage. So far, I have approached 7 opera companies that work in experimental productions such as these. I am intrigued as to whether any will contact me with development in mind 🎭