Performer: John La Bouchardière

This is not the Messiah you know; it's the one you live with. In El Niño, the story is told through texts ancient and contemporary, from a new perspective.

Imagine waiting for a long time. You can’t see anything, so you can’t entirely trust your unfamiliar surroundings. Imagine heightened senses: sounds with sharper edges, drafts of air crawling across goosebumped skin, scents stretching out to you in the darkness. Imagine an opera in which the performers can watch the audience rather than the other way around.