We are Impropera.
We make up operas on the spot from your suggestions.
No script. No score. No safety net
About Us
With hugely successful shows in London's West End, at the Edinburgh Fringe and across Europe, Impropera have an international reputation for their unique mix of virtuoso musicianship, agile wit and ingenious storytelling.
Aardvarks and arias. Tragedy and profanity. 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, all sung with profound emotional commitment and comedic verve.
Using their unique blend of music, agile wit and ingenious storytelling, Impropera unleash some musical mayhem on the nation's greatest museums in their latest show MUSO.
Reviews
“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.”
“Four fearless comedians, a pianist happy to improvise in the style of anyone from Scarlatti to Steve Reich, a quick-witted clarinettist, and a well-lubricated audience, sorry, chorus…The perfect operatic pick-me-up.”
“It’s a hugely entertaining musical show… It’s fascinating to watch the singers throwing the hot potato from one to another, providing an object lesson in seat-of-your-pants thinking. Such riotously good fun that even I lose my inhibitions.”
“Indescribably Funny. Opera is long overdue this improvisational going-over – especially when it is done with the love and care of impropera”
“Beware you can get addicted to Impropera”
Cast
Niall Ashdown
“If you don’t like Impropera, don’t worry – it’s not important”
Susan Bisatt
“Personally, I don’t really like not knowing what comes next and the audience love that.”
Louise Crane
“There’s a particular joy in getting lost together.”
Fiona Finsbury
“There are some experiences shared that make you friends for life; standing on stage together with no idea what you’re about to do and creating an opera from scratch is one of them.”
Pete Furniss
“It’s like no other kind of performing I know.”
Anthony Ingle
Musical Director
“You don’t choose improvisation, improvisation chooses you; and when the audience chooses the subject, you’re set free.”
Morag McLaren
“Impropera changed my whole attitude to my work as a singer. It liberated my creativity, physicality and my voice. It has been my most valuable training.”
David Pearl
Artistic Director
“We’re emotional translators”
Philip Pellew
“The first time you hear it is the first time we do it.”
Yshani Perinpanayagam
“Those moments where everyone somehow has the same thought at the same time and simultaneously acts on it feel like nothing else.”