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Royal Opera House Covent Garden is set to present “The Sound Voice Project” this fall at the Lindbury Theatre.

From Nov. 14-20, 2024, audiences will get to experience a mix of personal documentary, graphics, digital projections and performance film that “invites the audience to explore the intrinsic value of the human voice and how it affects our identity and self-perception.” Leading the project are Roderick Williams and Lucy Crowe as well as composer Hannah Conway and librettist Hazel Gould.

The project features three works including “Paul,” “I Left My Voice Behind,” and “Tanja.”

“Paul” features a collaboration between Williams and Paul Jameson with both singing from Paul’s perspective to explore what “voices” means to Paul as he loses his speech to motor neurone disease.

“I Left My Voice Behind” features a collaboration with the Shout at Cancer Choir.

Finally, “Tanja Bage” is headlined by Tanja Bage herself as she “explores how voice loss impacts her daily life as mother of two young children, her relationships, and the stigmas attached to being a woman with a laryngectomy.” Bage performs alongside Crowe in a dual aria.

“I am thrilled to bring The Sound Voice Project to the Royal Opera House and to platform voices and stories that are rarely given the stage. Important too in such an iconic building to ask – what does it mean to have a voice,” said Hannah Conway, Artistic Director of Sound Voice and composer of The Sound Voice Project in an official press release.