On March 7, 2026, Climate Opera Haus will present the world premiere of Soria Moria at Conway Hall in London. The performance marks the first operatic production within our Climate Tetralogy and establishes the artistic, structural, and ethical orientation of the work to come.
Soria Moria is a climate opera composed by Stefania Passamonte, inspired by Nordic mythology and grounded in contemporary climate science. Rather than treating climate as a topic to be explained or illustrated, the opera constructs a complete mythic world in which environmental transformation is experienced through form, sound, and consequence. Climate is not referenced. It is lived inside the structure of the work.
The opera follows Lucia, a young explorer drawn toward the Arctic by the voice of Fossegrim, an ancient water spirit. Guided by Zefira, the West Wind, Lucia undertakes a journey toward the realm of the Snow Queen, where winter itself is at risk of disappearance. What begins as a fairy-tale passage becomes a reflection on responsibility, belief, and the fragile continuity between human action and planetary systems.
Blending folklore with environmental reality, the opera unfolds across forests, Nordic villages, and the icy realm of Niflheim. Mythic figures do not function as saviors. They operate as ethical testers, exposing limits, thresholds, and consequences. The narrative resists catastrophe as spectacle, instead asking how attention, restraint, and listening shape the possibility of return.
The evening will open with a brief introduction by the composer and producer, followed by the full operatic performance. After the performance, audiences will be invited to engage with the immersive visual installation that forms part of the work’s spatial design. The opera is performed in English and Nordic languages, with surtitles.
Soria Moria is a standalone event. It represents the first movement in our Climate Tetralogy, a unified operatic cycle structured around the four elements: air, fire, water, and earth. Together, the four works form a closed system designed to travel, return, and accumulate meaning over time. Completion belongs to the cycle, not to any single opera.
Conway Hall was selected deliberately. As a venue with a long-standing commitment to ethical inquiry and civic culture, it provides a context where the opera can be experienced on its artistic terms, without compression into symbolic performance or policy framing.
Details regarding performance timing, access, and ticket booking are available directly through Conway Hall.
For full performance details, access information, and ticket booking, visit the Conway Hall event page.