Uprising

Uprising is a new community opera by Jonathan Dove that tells the story of one teenager's school strike in the face of the climate emergency. Co-commissioned by Glyndebourne with Saffron Hall Trust, the opera premiered in February 2025 and featured the largest number of instrumentalists and singers performing in a mainstage community opera in Glyndebourne’s history. Fifty Glyndebourne Youth Opera participants and 51 adults from the local community performed on stage with professional soloists, while 17 youth instrumentalists, plus eight on-stage percussionists (four young people and four professionals), played alongside the Glyndebourne Sinfonia. Composer Jonathan Dove and librettist April De Angelis won the 2025 Ivor Novello award for Best Community and Participation Composition for Uprising and the opera won the Opera and Music Theatre award at the 2026 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. Uprising has also been performed at Saffron Hall and by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh and Glasgow and will soon be staged by the Dutch National Opera & Ballet.