“Rising to the audience’s every challenge, the company quickly weave a plot of brilliant ingenuity, embroider it with musical parody and bring wonder and joy to all.” The Times

How does one describe the pure enjoyment of virtuoso musicianship combined with the agile wit of improvisation? In a world of dumbing down, here is a show for an audience that revels in the skill and sparkle of such programmes as QI, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and The News Quiz.
Impropera create opera with an anarchic irreverent edge.
Led by David Pearl, who made his ROH debut aged 9
with Placido Domingo in 1970, the Impropera Company
also features Comedy Store regular Niall Ashdown,
sensitively powerful soprano Morag McLaren, powerfully
sensitive soprano Susan Bisatt, clarinettist Peter Furniss,
musical director Anthony Ingle on piano and, for the Edinburgh 2007 shows, guest artists Andy Morton and Louise Crane.
With an entirely new show every night, fresh from six brilliantly inventive minds and voices, Impropera can make a musical production about absolutely anything.With a bit of help from the audience in the way of suggested phrases, words or scenarios, Impropera draws you into their world of diverse characters - perhaps a chorus girl who never gets the part, a rapper, a parking attendant, or a pompous barrister; sung with profound emotional commitment and comedic verve.

"Indescribably Funny. Opera is long overdue this improvisational going-over – especially when it is done with the love and care of impropera. The better their improvisation, the harder it is to believe it was actually improvised. This is not about musical pastiches but built on emotional authenticity, realness and complicity."
Swedish Daily News