Joby Talbot's Everest | BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

The UK premiere of Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer’s new opera Everest: a spectacular drama of life, death and the human spirit on the roof of the world.

May 1996, and as their plans disintegrate and a blizzard closes in, four climbers confront the summit of Mount Everest – and a life-or-death choice. Based on a true story, Talbot’s opera has a contemporary setting, but an eternal theme: the limits of human courage, and the unbreakable power of nature.

In this semi-staged version, atmospheric visual projections take you into the freezing heart of a raging storm as the ‘musically stunning and cinematically thrilling’ (Dallas Observer) story unfolds. ‘Gripping, edge of your seat story-telling’ wrote one US critic after its premiere in 2015. ‘If you want to see where opera is headed in the 21st-century, don't miss this production.’