AN OPERA for young people about young people will be performed at the Memo Arts Centre, Barry, from Wednesday, July 27 to Saturday, July 30.

Kommilitonen! is the latest production by the acclaimed WNO Youth Opera following the RPS award winning Paul Bunyan in 2013.

Each WNO Youth Opera production gives the brightest emerging performers, musicians and technicians an opportunity to take centre stage benefitting from the support and expertise of this world-class opera company.

Kommilitonen! intertwines three stories of student revolution in the 20th century – the Chinese Cultural Revolution; the Civil Rights Movement in the USA; and the White Rose movement in Nazi Germany.

The three stories come together at the end of the opera, locating the action between the present and the past, and evoking the tyranny of the three political systems that the opera explores.

For an opera about revolution, it’s important that we don’t just sit passively in our seats but feel part of the action.

Polly Graham’s promenade production seizes on this idea by putting the audience in the heart of these stories and combines innovative visual projections with a spectacular set transforming the Memo into the frontline of 20th century turmoil.

This production will take place on the floor of the Memo’s Main Hall and audience members will be required to move around the space.

There will also be a limited amount of seating in certain parts of the hall but this seating cannot be reserved.

The performance will be sung in English with short passages in German – please note that there are no subtitles. Due to the subject matter of the opera please be advised that it is suitable for ages 12 and above.

Performances take place at 7pm Wednesday to Friday, and on Saturday at 2.30pm and 7pm.

Tickets cost £12 or £40 for a group ticket. A limited number of £5 tickets for under 30s are available through the box office only on 01446 738622.

For more information about the show please contact the Memo Arts Centre box office.